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It has been widely recognized that automated bots may have a significant impact on the outcomes of national events. It is important to raise public awareness about the threat of bots on social media during these important events, such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Kai-Cheng Yang , Pik-Mai Hui , Filippo Menczer

Bots have been in the spotlight for many social media studies, for they have been observed to be participating in the manipulation of information and opinions on social media. These studies analyzed the activity and influence of bots in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Lynnette Hui Xian Ng , Kathleen M. Carley

As the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) emerge, they not only assist in accomplishing traditional tasks within more efficient paradigms but also stimulate the evolution of social bots. Researchers have begun exploring the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Siyu Li , Jin Yang , Kui Zhao

A recent study has found that malicious bots generated nearly a quarter of overall website traffic in 2019 [100]. These malicious bots perform activities such as price and content scraping, account creation and takeover, credit card fraud,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Meriem Guerar , Luca Verderame , Mauro Migliardi , Francesco Palmieri , Alessio Merlo

The development of natural language processing algorithms and the explosive growth of conversational data are encouraging researches on the human-computer conversation. Still, getting qualified conversational data on a large scale is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Sihyeon Jo , Seungryong Yoo , Sangwon Im , Seung Hee Yang , Tong Zuo , Hee-Eun Kim , SangWook Han , Seong-Woo Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) are compact representations of all public knowledge of our physical environment and animal and human behaviors. The application of LLMs to robotics may offer a path to highly capable robots that perform well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 OpenMind , Shaohong Zhong , Adam Zhou , Boyuan Chen , Homin Luo , Jan Liphardt

AI-based chatbots have the potential to accelerate learning and teaching, but may also have counterproductive consequences without thoughtful design and scaffolding. To better understand teachers' perspectives on large language model…

Online Social Networks have revolutionized how we consume and share information, but they have also led to a proliferation of content not always reliable and accurate. One particular type of social accounts is known to promote unreputable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Edoardo Di Paolo , Marinella Petrocchi , Angelo Spognardi

Chatbots are conversational software applications designed to interact dialectically with users for a plethora of different purposes. Surprisingly, these colloquial agents have only recently been coupled with computational models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Federico Castagna , Nadin Kokciyan , Isabel Sassoon , Simon Parsons , Elizabeth Sklar

Conversation agents, commonly referred to as chatbots, are increasingly deployed in many domains to allow people to have a natural interaction while trying to solve a specific problem. Given their widespread use, it is important to provide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Biplav Srivastava , Francesca Rossi , Sheema Usmani , and Mariana Bernagozzi

Software engineering bots - automated tools that handle tedious tasks - are increasingly used by industrial and open source projects to improve developer productivity. Current research in this area is held back by a lack of consensus of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Linda Erlenhov , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Philipp Leitner

Large language model (LLM) powered chatbots are primarily text-based today, and impose a large interactional cognitive load, especially for exploratory or sensemaking tasks such as planning a trip or learning about a new city. Because the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Xiao Ma , Swaroop Mishra , Ariel Liu , Sophie Su , Jilin Chen , Chinmay Kulkarni , Heng-Tze Cheng , Quoc Le , Ed Chi

This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of an emerging cryptocurrency scam named "arbitrage bot" disseminated on online social networks. The scam revolves around Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) arbitrage and aims to lure victims…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Kai Li , Shixuan Guan , Darren Lee

Coordinated information operations remain a persistent challenge on social media, despite platform efforts to curb them. While previous research has primarily focused on identifying these operations within individual platforms, this study…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Federico Cinus , Marco Minici , Luca Luceri , Emilio Ferrara

Data extracted from social networks like Twitter are increasingly being used to build applications and services that mine and summarize public reactions to events, such as traffic monitoring platforms, identification of epidemic outbreaks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Carlos A. Freitas , Fabrício Benevenuto , Saptarshi Ghosh , Adriano Veloso

In recent years, chatbots have gained widespread adoption thanks to their ability to assist users at any time and across diverse domains. However, the lack of large-scale curated datasets limits research on their quality and reliability.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Elena Masserini , Diego Clerissi , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Recent advances in natural language processing and machine learning have led to the development of chatbot models, such as ChatGPT, that can engage in conversational dialogue with human users. However, the ability of these models to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Bocheng Chen , Guangjing Wang , Hanqing Guo , Yuanda Wang , Qiben Yan

The problem of detecting bots, automated social media accounts governed by software but disguising as human users, has strong implications. For example, bots have been used to sway political elections by distorting online discourse, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Sneha Kudugunta , Emilio Ferrara

This paper presents a research platform that supports spoken dialogue interaction with multiple robots. The demonstration showcases our crafted MultiBot testing scenario in which users can verbally issue search, navigate, and follow…

Socialbots are intelligent software controlling all the behavior of fake accounts in an online social network. They use artificial intelligence techniques to pass themselves off as human social media users. Socialbots exploit user trust to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Samaneh Hosseini Moghaddam , Mandana Khademi , Maghsoud Abbaspour