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Musk Now Claims Twitter Breached Buyout Deal Over Bots
Billionaire poop-thrower Elon Musk is getting ever closer to pushing the big red button on his Twitter buyout deal thanks to his incessant demands that Twitter prove its users are real, fleshy human beings rather than cold-hearted spam bots.
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6 Things That Are Going to Ruin Christmas This Year
Ah, the holidays. As much as they can be an awesome time to see the people you care about most, take time off, and just generally kick back, we all know they can also be a veritable stress-fest of last-minute shopping, heaps of snow, cross country travel, and familial chaos. In short, there’s a lot…
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In Ron’s Gone Wrong, the Social Network Has Been Roboticised
Those kids today. Always on their phones! It seems like they’ve stopped talking to each other except through Instagram and TikTok and the Whozit and Whatevers. But what if. instead of phones, their social lives were conducted through adorable robots called B-Bots?
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This Bot Clicking Ads on Climate Articles Shows the News Is Broken
Watching Synthetic Messenger is a somewhat dissociative experience. It operates in a Zoom call with 100 participants, all of whom are bots. Observers can watch these bots — which are strangely anthropomorphised with images of disembodied hands and voices that say “scroll” and “click” repeatedly — methodically scroll through news articles about climate change and…