As many as 8% of Instagram accounts are fake spam bots, according to a study by a group of Italian security researchers. The researchers monitored more than 10.2 million Instagram accounts ...

The September 2023 launch of Meta's social profiles for AI characters was announced alongside a much splashier initiative that created animated AI chatbots with celebrity avatars at the same time.

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, whose platforms are already flooded with AI-generated content, recently floated an idea to make the problem even worse: letting users create bot characters in ...

On Facebook, links to instances of the Instagram alternative Pixelfed are being marked as spam. Several users have noticed this, heise online was able to track the behavior. Posts with a link to ...