In the team's tests, LLM-based bots reduced the performance of existing detectors by 30%. Yet researchers also found that an LLM trained specifically to detect social media bots outperformed state ...

Humans’ unique laziness when it comes to interacting on social media could be the key to telling us apart from artificially intelligent 'bots', a new study shows. US researchers have identified ...

As spamming technologies mature, research on bots’ humanlike traits will continue to be important for detection efforts, according to the study. “The way we interact with social media, we are not ...

“Bot or Not? achieves very promising detection accuracy,” say Ferrara and pals. There are some limitations, however. First, the team took social bots originally identified in 2011 so it’s ...

For many users, scrolling through social media ... Generative AI bots have been getting better at mimicking human behaviors. This means traditional and state-of-the-art bot detection tools ...

This has immediate consequences for academic research as most studies using the tool will unknowingly count a high number of human users as bots and vice versa. Rauchfleisch and Kaiser conclude the ...

Bots or fake accounts enabled by artificial intelligence on social media have evolved and are now better able to copy human behaviors in order to avoid detection. USC Information Sciences ...

Within 48 hours, conspiracy theories ran rampant on social ... detection company Cyabra analyzed thousands of profiles tied to this narrative. Their report claimed 45% of them were bots ...