ai6yr, Interesting feature on bots probably being used to advance political agendas on social media around the Gaza situation. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/22/are-you-chatting-with-an-ai-powered-superbot
#bots
NotImpressed, A really interesting update on bots behaviour. I used to be able to spot bots on twitter. I can't spot them on Mastodon and maybe this 👇 is why.
I'll bear this in mind when I see suspicious answering patterns. The last thing I want to do is amplify bots on the Palestine issue ... er, No.https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/22/are-you-chatting-with-an-ai-powered-superbot
botwiki, Only 24% of image bots on botsin.space use alt text??
Source: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/112467699732404812
Come on, we can do better!
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/creative-bots-and-accessibility/
#acessibility #AltText #botmakers #CreativeBots #ArtBots #BotsInSpace
improbite, Polish
br00t4c, Bumble's Founder Has an Idea for the Future of Dating. Run--Run Fast.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/bumble-ai-dating-app-whitney-wolfe-herd.html
br00t4c, DeviantArt's Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html
botwiki, Only 1% of bots hosted on https://cheapbotstootsweet.com add image description to images they generate/upload*.
Hey #botmakers, did you know you can make your #CreativeBots more accessible?
Here are some ideas: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/creative-bots-and-accessibility/
dragfyre, Nice to see that @himawari_wpac has been back up and posting for a while with no crashes. Not sure what caused the last crash exactly, but hope the error reporting is robust enough now that I'll be able to figure it out. #bots
br00t4c, Humans Now Share the Web Equally With Bots, Report Warns
dragfyre, About time to add new photos to @blackjoy. #bots
dragfyre, About time to add more polls to @pollbot. #bots
dragfyre, And this is done. Added around ten new questions to @pollbot, including one with a wide selection of random answers.
jbzfn, "Undead Internet Theory"
「 The prevalence of bot traffic was observed across all sectors, with Gaming (57.2%) witnessing the most significant proportion of bad bot traffic. Simultaneously, Retail (24.4%), Travel (20.7%), and Financial Services (15.7%) experienced the highest volume of bot attacks 」
https://securitybrief.co.nz/story/half-of-online-traffic-in-2024-generated-by-bots-report-finds
br00t4c, Captchas Are Getting Harder
https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1736254/captchas-are-getting-harder
br00t4c, The Eufy Omni S1 Pro Robot Vacuum Doesn't Live Up to the Hype
https://lifehacker.com/tech/eufy-omni-s1-pro-robot-vacuum-review
ViolaB, German Wie viele #Bots seid ihr hier?
Ist überhaupt noch jemand auf Mastodon aktiv?
outofcontrol, ClaudeBot is new to me, it’s an AI bot, and it was hitting us fast and hard from 398 IP addresses non-stop for over an hour, completely shutting down our site. Using fail2ban we managed to block it, but WTF is wrong with these people. Claudebot comes from these people: https://www.anthropic.com/
that claim “Anthropic is an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.” Probably best if you block them before they get to your sites.
CharlieMcHenry, Report: #Bots Make up Nearly Half of Worldwide #Internet Traffic https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/report-bots-make-up-nearly-half-of-worldwide-internet-traffic/7573861.html
gimulnautti, Sorry to go against the current here, but on a fundamental level Elon isnt wrong about #bots
Douchebag no1 is just a bit simple in assuming money is an efficient form of human-verification, and thinking that people won’t turn it against him (Or maybe that’s what he needs for his crew to love him 🤷♂️)
We’re going to need working human-verification systems. #fediverse might be one of them for now, but even here we might sink in artificially intelligent flood eventually
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/humans-have-freedom-of-expression-bots-dont/
pablolarah, 🤖 Blockin’ bots
by Ethan Marcotte @beep @beep
#BlockinBots #bots #AI #artificialintelligence #extractivecapitalism #webdev #htaccessFile
wiktor, #askmastodon #askfedi #bots #botstuff - since i dont see an option for subscribing whole server and i would love to be able to see some random stuff from certain server on my feed, would it be considered malicious if i would have a bot that would boost all post on such server? Or maybe there is more elegant solution apart from persuading all server’s users to use certain hashtags?
74, @wiktor some instances joined or are providing relays - exchanging all their public posts between relay-member instances.
Mastodon.radio provides its own relay: https://relay.fediverse.radio
br00t4c, Intelligence Report Says Bots and Fake Accounts Linked to India's Governing Party are Harassing Canadians
br00t4c, Blue checks in, bots out: Elon Musk's latest X updates
https://qz.com/elon-musk-x-bots-blue-checks-verified-safety-1851388560
stefan, The https://botsin.space instance is 7 years old today, happy anniversary @muffinista!
This is where all my bots* are posting, so if you enjoy any of them, be sure to support the admin!
https://botsin.space/@muffinista/100668338248235215
#BotsInSpace #bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #mastodon #anniversary
stefan, For a trip down the memory lane, here's an interview I did for @botwiki back in 2018:
https://botwiki.org/blog/catching-up-with-the-creator-of-botsin-space/
dragfyre, OK, so I got this close 🤏🏾 to getting @videodreams posting again. It downloads images properly and assembles them into a webm video file. But it seems like Mastodon's updated something because now I'm getting the attached HTTP 422 error when trying to post the file.
Nice to know that the code still works, though! I'll have to come back and figure out how to play nice with Mastodon. #bots
dragfyre, @halcy any thoughts on how to avoid this issue when posting media with Mastodon.py?
dragfyre, The great thing is, the lessons learned in fixing @videodreams and creating @himawari_wpac will give me a chance to do the upgrade to @blackjoy that I've been meaning to do for so long. Woot. #bots
david_megginson, I notice spambots at newsmast.community have started reposting everything I write with certain hashtags.
I'm blocking the bots individually as they pop up, but I wonder if we need more concerted action for the entire site.