A student-teacher team at the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University, found a network of 1,140 fake accounts on X that reportedly utilize ChatGPT to generate “suspicious and harmfu…
last month that X, formerly known as Twitter, has a real bot problem, with about 1,140 artificial intelligence-powered accounts that “post machine-generated content and steal selfies to create fake personas.”
Their posts often include hashtags such as #bitcoin, #crypto, and #web3, and frequently interact with human-run accounts like Forbes’ crypto-centered X account and blockchain-centered news site Watcher Guru , the study found. These elements suggest that “Fox8 bots are actively participating in activities on Twitter [now known as X],” and make them more believable to the human user.
However, advancements in language models — specifically ChatGPT — have made accounts within Fox8 increasingly difficult to detect by “significantly enhancing the capabilities of bots across all dimensions.” However, they disclosed that they found out which accounts were in the botnet after discovering “self-revealing tweets posted by these accounts accidentally.”
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