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In the year since SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk assumed control of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter (now X), the site’s new leadership has repeatedly asserted that subscription…
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They say never meet your heroes. But what if those heroes came in the shape of an AI chatbot designed to emulate a celebrity or literary great? Last month, Meta…
As with all social media platforms, YouTube plays host to a variety of spam accounts, and as with all social media platforms, networks of such accounts can more easily be…
the Titanic sank in the middle of the night, so this comparison doesn’t even make senseOver the last two years, networks of spammy accounts using the #Accelerationism hashtag have repeatedly…
in a wacky coincidence, all of these accounts have the same login credentialsBeginning on May 10th, 2023, a network of recently-created accounts started spamming Twitter users with repetitive replies containing…
to be fair, one wouldn’t really expect an account named @KinderHappyLand to generate inappropriate or offensive contentSometimes the best way to detect malicious or deceptive use of AI tools is…
Over the last several years, evidence of large-scale ongoing human rights abuses committed by the Chinese government against Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang has surfaced with increasing frequency.…