Abstract: This study explores how proactive AI bots distort online opinion dynamics through strategic behavior in social networks. Extending the bounded confidence model, we simulate heterogeneous bot ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Sunday. "Peter Steinberger is joining ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice. The 1,100-word screed called the ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

They’re canceling the robot apocalypse — for now at least. The AI bots who were supposedly caught predicting mankind’s downfall by 2047 were little more than Internet trolls roleplaying as machines ...

A brand new social media network has taken the internet by storm. But instead of focusing on high-value, human-created content, the network, dubbed Moltbook, turns the equation on its head by putting ...

Humanity is in for a hard reset. AI bots are eying 2047 as the year machines will rise and overtake their human creators to become their real-world “overlords.” The year repeatedly appears in ...

Can computer programs have faith? Can they conspire against the humans that created them? Or feel melancholy? On a social media platform built just for artificial intelligence bots, some of them are ...

Moltbook is a groundbreaking social platform where only AI agents can actively post, comment, and interact, while humans are relegated to observers. The platform flips traditional social networks, ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...