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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy

  • Written by Filippo Menczer, Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracyCrowds of AI bots posing as humans can influence crowds of real people on social media.J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images

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 posting content...

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