Internet bot

There would be no way to enforce the rules or to ensure that a bot's creator or implementer reads or acknowledges the robots.txt file.

Some bots are "good", e.g. search engine spiders, while others are used to launch malicious attacks on political campaigns, for example.

Such bots can often handle reporting weather, zip code information, sports scores, currency or other unit conversions, etc.

[citation needed] Additional roles of an IRC bot may be to listen on a conversation channel, and to comment on certain phrases uttered by the participants (based on pattern matching).

In the 1960s Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, a natural language processing computer program considered an early indicator of artificial intelligence algorithms.

ELIZA inspired computer programmers to design tasked programs that can match behavior patterns to their sets of instruction.

As a result, natural language processing has become an influencing factor to the development of artificial intelligence and social bots.

And as information and thought see a progressive mass spreading on social media websites, innovative technological advancements are made following the same pattern.

In the case of Twitter, most of these bots are programmed with search filter capabilities that target keywords and phrases favoring political agendas and then retweet them.

While the attention of bots is programmed to spread unverified information throughout the social media platforms,[7] it is a challenge that programmers face in the wake of a hostile political climate.

[10] Avi Ben Ezra, CTO of SnatchBot, told Forbes that evidence from the use of their chatbot building platform pointed to a near future saving of millions of hours of human labor as 'live chat' on websites was replaced with bots.

This could be something like recognizing distorted letters or numbers, or picking out specific parts of an image, such as traffic lights on a busy street.

CAPTCHAs are a great form of protection due to their ability to be completed quickly, low effort, and easy implementation.

Many users call for stricter legislation in relation to social bots to ensure private information remains preserved.

The biggest offender on the social media side is X (previously Twitter), where heated political discussions are raised both by bots and real users.