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Microsoft Taps ChatGPT to Boost Bing—and Beat Google
Bing’s new chat-style interface is a greater departure from the traditional search box. In a demonstration, Microsoft vice president of…
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How to Stop ChatGPT from Going Off the Rails
When WIRED asked me to cover this week’s newsletter, my first instinct was to ask ChatGPT—OpenAI’s viral chatbot—to see what…
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Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system,…
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I Uncovered an Army of Fake Men on Hinge
Whaling also said that many of the company’s apps ask users to take profile photos within the app itself, so…
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The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier…
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How Bots Corrupted Advertising | WIRED
“As a result of this elaborate scheme, the defendant falsified billions of ad views and caused businesses to pay more…
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This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon…
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Not All Bots Are Bad, and Twitter Knows It
But bots don’t even need to be useful. “I don’t think bots have to do something worthwhile,” says V Buckenham,…
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Hypebeasts With Bots Have Ruined Christmas
The idea that major retailers need to do more is a sentiment that those who lose out to bots at…
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GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers
When OpenAI demonstrated a powerful artificial intelligence algorithm capable of generating coherent text last June, its creators warned that the…
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