Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a ...

HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that bots have eclipsed human users, with automated traffic growing eight times faster than human activity.

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, ...

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 ...