Robots With a Human Touch? Yes, Please
[ad_1] Robots already lend a hand around the home, figuratively speaking. Some can brush the char from the barbecue, others can mow your yard, wash your windows, or clean your…
How to Stop ChatGPT from Going Off the Rails
[ad_1] When WIRED asked me to cover this week’s newsletter, my first instinct was to ask ChatGPT—OpenAI’s viral chatbot—to see what it came up with. It’s what I’ve been doing…
ChatGPT’s Most Charming Trick Is Also Its Biggest Flaw
[ad_1] Like many other people over the past week, Bindu Reddy recently fell under the spell of ChatGPT, a free chatbot that can answer all manner of questions with stunning and…
Hinge Will Try to Thwart Scammers With Video Verification
[ad_1] Match Group, which operates one of the world’s largest portfolios of dating apps, will soon add a new profile verification feature to its popular dating app Hinge. The feature…
I Uncovered an Army of Fake Men on Hinge
[ad_1] Whaling also said that many of the company’s apps ask users to take profile photos within the app itself, so that automated tools can compare the images with the…
The Problem With Mental Health Bots
[ad_1] Teresa Berkowitz’s experiences with therapists had been hit or miss. ”Some good, some helpful, some just a waste of time and money,” she says. When some childhood trauma was…
How Bots Corrupted Advertising | WIRED
[ad_1] When Aleksandr Zhukov went on trial last year, he stood accused of defrauding US companies, including The New York Times and pet care brand Purina, out of millions of…
Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
[ad_1] Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning…
The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
[ad_1] I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier this year, worked for Twitter via the outsourcing company…
I Love Twitter Bots and I Cannot Lie
[ad_1] “I love bots” feels like a controversial statement now, given the rise of troll farms deploying them and the proliferation of egg accounts spreading bad information or engaging in…
This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
[ad_1] August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon Musk’s argument on why he should no longer have…
Not All Bots Are Bad, and Twitter Knows It
[ad_1] But bots don’t even need to be useful. “I don’t think bots have to do something worthwhile,” says V Buckenham, founder of Cheap Bots, Done Quick!, a free tool…