As a game designer, Greg Borenstein’s work explores machine learning, computer vision, drawing, and generative storytelling. With Uncanny X-Bot, he created a Twitter bot that generates plot summaries ...

In light of Microsoft’s recent ill-fated attempt at creating a teen girl chatbot, I found myself wondering how often these programs pass themselves off as real people. I reached out to a user ...

People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken on Sept. 27, 2013. Reuters Are some of the most-followed accounts on ...

The “Dead Internet Theory” claims much of the online world is no longer driven by real humans—and some of the numbers explored in the video are unsettling. One estimate cited puts automated traffic at ...

Almost a thousand Twitter accounts controlled by a large bot farm pushing Russian propaganda and domains used to register the bots were taken down in a joint international law enforcement operation ...

Happy Monday. My name is David Meyer and I'm going to be regularly writing the Data Sheet lead essay, so, pleased to meet you. A bit about me: I'm a South African who's lived in Berlin for 11 years ...

Twitter bots are automated user accounts that interact with Twitter using an application programming interface (API). These bots can be programmed to perform tasks normally associated with human ...