A 2017 Facebook experiment also drew alarming headlines. But then, as now, the danger was not what it seemed.

More than 45,000 developers are now using the Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday. This makes it one of the most popular ways to create a bot, in part because of its ...

At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, Facebook announced the beta launch of Bot Engine, a tool for teaching chatbots what to say in specific types of situations. The technology — ...

The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed and blocked another two bot farms, which operated around 7,000 fake Facebook accounts and shared harmful content via social media. Source: Main Directorate ...

Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.

“Sociable” is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today. If you thought that 2024 was a big year for social ...

Meta has acknowledged that it used public posts on its Facebook and Instagram platforms to train its new artificial intelligence virtual assistant. Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said ...

On Friday, Facebook 1 unveiled a new experiment: a conversational AI named BlenderBot 3. Facebook says it can “can search the internet to talk about nearly any topic.” The BlenderBot series has made ...

If there’s anything Facebook has on other tech companies, it’s this: none of them come close to matching its appalling reputation. That’s what being the subject of endless data-privacy scandals does ...

(JTA) — People can now “chat” with Anne Frank through a computer-generated bot. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and Facebook have partnered on the bot, which was released at the museum Tuesday by ...

Over on Facebook, the latest frontier of AI misinformation is taking the form of a wizened old wizard who gives appalling mushroom advice. This dangerous chatbot was brought to 404‘s attention via ...