In Moltbook hysteria, former top Facebook researcher sees echoes of 2017 panic over bots building a ‘secret language’

A 2017 Facebook experiment also drew alarmed headlines. But then, as now, the danger was not what it seemed.

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of ...
Digital Journal

Heavy traffic: Beware the rise of the Internet bot

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...
Business Wire

DataDome: 95% of Advanced Bots Go Undetected on Websites

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataDome, the leader in cyberfraud protection, today released its 2024 Global Bot Security Report, revealing that more than 65% of websites are unprotected against simple ...
adexchanger

Adalytics: The Ad Industry’s Bot Problem Is Worse Than We Thought

Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including ...