Feb 1, 2016
Here’s how DARPA trained researchers to kill bots
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
YOU GOT A BOT PROBLEM — use DARPA’s BOT Killer”
DARPA shared their method of eliminating “bots.
Bots are a particularly pernicious presence on Twitter. While they can be used for good, (R.I.P., original @horse_ebooks), bots often power spam, scams and, most interestingly, very volatile clusters of political and cultural discussion on Twitter. Last year, DARPA confronted the problem and, according to MIT Tech Review, a new report shows just how researchers were able to identify and shutdown the malicious programs.
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