A Bot is a software application with a number of different applications, including gathering and curating information, holding conversations with Users as ChatBots, etc.
However, Bots may also have malicious purposes, such as discovering passwords, obtaining financial information, sending spam and accessing information from infected computers.
ChatBots have existed for a while now, with some even able to write full length paragraphs. Often, these ChatBots have websites dedicated to them, make them easy to distinguish.
However, some ChatBots exist on Social Media Platforms, “A social bot is a computer algorithm that automatically produces content and interacts with humans on social media, trying to emulate and possibly alter their behaviour”.
A bot is essentially an algorithm pretending to be a User, used to continue or alter conversations online.
So if you think you’re interacting with people online, chances are they could be a BOT.
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Heya Hayden!
A nice PSA about bots! The increase on free access to different tiers of AI (artificial intelligence) is really something to be noted! Bots are, after-all, a form of AI.
The ability to have access to tech such as this is also really important and the current way in which it is used by those in political power, is interesting. Bot technology should be accessible by as many people as possible; imagine the leaps forward in technology we would have; if more people could get there hands on it! Related tech is used in the ever-increasing-in-scale, cyber-wars that entire countries find themselves in.
โGovernments need to give up power and control in order to help make us more secureโ [1]. An short TED-talk on Governments and their relation to said cyber-war.
My blog post on cyber-war delves into it a bit more if you or anyone else is at all interested!
Links:
1 – https://youtu.be/_nSHsb5xKPo
Blog – https://thebrokenexecutable.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/week-11-cyber_warfare-exe/
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