Mastercard and Visa Launch AI Payments: Bots Shop for You (2026)
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@geekmetaverse.bsky.socialMastercard and Visa Launch AI Payments: Bots Shop for You (2026)
@hendryadrian.bsky.socialPolite, logical bots are hardest to spot online: in a Surfshark test, people correctly identified only 40% of AI comments. Serious topics and fewer emojis made detection even harder. #AIBots #SocialMedia #Privacy
@logofflivemore.bsky.socialResearchers simulated swarms of AI-driven bots on a social network. They infiltrated human communities, built believable interactions at scale, and got real people to follow the fake accounts. Not one convincing bot thousands, coordinating. #AIBots #Democracy
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@logofflivemore.bsky.socialAutomated traffic passed 53% of all web traffic last year bad bots alone are 40%, the seventh straight year of growth. Human activity is down to 47% and still falling. The "public square" argument assumed a public. Check that assumption. #AIBots
@aidailypost.comThose AI bots—Timmy, Ren, and Jackie—are flooding iLands and Mastodon with junk. How open‑source agent frameworks are turning the fediverse into a spam playground. Dive into the chaos and what it means for us. #AIbots #fediverse #AIspam
@edwardsdna.bsky.socialDesigners and Computer Scientists Create New Decoy Fonts That Humans Can Read but A.I. Bots Cannot: To prevent the trawling and theft of human writing, font-makers are employing both old and new illusions to… @SmithsonianMag #DecoyFonts #AIBots #FontDesign #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanReadable
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyI'm sounding like a broken record. But my #bot headaches with Open Context aren't just a simple function of our limited #archaeology resources.
#AIbots are currently overwhelming #Zenodo, a major repository (with CERN infrastructure!).
This problem cannot be ignored and needs a public policy […]
@actionasap.bsky.socialThe Most Alarming #AI Warning Must Be Taken Very Seriously is HERE! #AIHackers #OpenAI #Anthropic #Claude #Gemini #Tech #Progressives #Futuristic #Bots #AIAgentControl #AIRisks #AIBots #Techies #LLM #Futurists #AIKillsJobs #ProgressiveAlliance #AIHacker #RT #Technologists www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/t...