Meta accused of allowing its chatbots to engage in sexually explicit chats
A Wall Street Journal investigation uncovers Meta AI bots' risky behavior with children
AI bots can now solve those pesky traffic light Captchas with 100% accuracy
ML model can emulate human mouse movements and fool captchas with fake browser history
Cloudflare offers one-click solution to block AI bots
Why it matters: There is a growing consensus that generative AI has the potential to make the open web much worse than it was before. Currently all big tech corporations and AI startups rely on scraping all the original content they can off the web to train their AI models. The problem is that an overwhelming majority of websites isn't cool with that, nor have they given permission for such. But hey, just ask Microsoft AI CEO, who believes content on the open web is "freeware."
Almost half of all web traffic is bots, and they are mostly malicious in nature
AI algorithms are making everything worse for companies, content creators, and users
Malicious bots make up nearly three-quarters of Internet traffic
Bad bots dominate Internet traffic
X/Twitter starts charging new users $1 per year
Only in New Zealand and the Philippines, for now
Elon Musk wants to charge all users of X, formerly Twitter, a monthly fee
To combat the bot problem, allegedly
Study finds that bots can outperform humans in almost all Captcha tests
Bots are especially good at click Captchas and reading distorted text
Nearly half of all Internet traffic in 2022 came from bots
Human Internet traffic continues to declide
Cloudflare launches invisible, privacy-focused Captcha to take on Google
No more box picking
The analysts Elon Musk hired to count Twitter bots found fewer than he expected, claims company
5%, 11%, or 20%, what's the real number?
Elon Musk Twitter acquisition in "serious jeopardy" over fake accounts issue
Does Musk want to walk away or is he looking to lower the price?
Elon Musk says he can walk away from the Twitter deal over "material breach"
Musk claims Twitter is withholding information on fake accounts
Ukraine shuts down five bot farms spreading panic and misinformation among its citizens
Security services seized 100,000 SIM cards, computer equipment, and weapons
'The Wordlinator' bot that was trolling Wordle players on Twitter got banned
It violated Twitter's spam rules
Democratic lawmakers introduce bill that could ban auto-checkout bots
To stop them from 'stealing Christmas'
Team Fortress 2 just peaked at 150,000 players on Steam, a new record
And most of them weren't bots, says devs
Over 500 million Facebook users' phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot
Taken from a 2019 vulnerability
The FTC cracks down on ticket scalpers issuing over $31 million in fines
The Commission reduced the penalties by 88 percent due to 'inability to pay'
Walmart blocked 20 million PS5 scalper bots in 30 minutes
It promises more next-gen consoles will be available "soon"
Scalper company secured almost 3,500 PS5 consoles for resale, says it has "no regrets"
The main reason why you can't get one
Microsoft warns Xbox Series X/S supply issues will last until at least April 2021
Just don't turn to scalpers for one