Artificial Intelligence Powered Bots Are Coming to Stay

Varga Norbert
6 min readFeb 21, 2023

Bots are everywhere. Be it Facebook, Snapchat or Youtube, bots have become a standard presence on most social networks.

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This wasn’t always the case, however, as those who remember the earlier days of the internet can tell, bots used to be quite rare, and their activity, limited.

Although nowadays we are surrounded by fake accounts across all websites, the common bots are quite easily identifiable, at least for now.

Unfortunately, the near future is likely to bring the next generation of bots to our social media screens, and this generation promises to replicate real identities with frightening accuracy.

Why now?

Technology is constantly improving, especially when it comes to machine learning and AI-powered tools.

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Computers have already proven themselves more than capable of creating highly realistic portraits of people who’ve never even existed, and this technology is only getting more and more accessible each day.

The bots we are all used to seeing are most often than not created with cheap software, using stolen images…

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Varga Norbert
Varga Norbert

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