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'IIT-CNR entra a far parte del Quantum Network di IBM' 'iit.cnr.it/news/iit-cnr-e…

Do you want to prevent the use of bots or identify all users? #FreeSpeech #Twitter #ElonMusk #Anonymous

Join Our Research Team! #CNR #AI #CyberIntelligence iit.cnr.it/career/assegno…

Finally out our work on #FirstMonday entitled "#VinciSalvini! Boosting engagement in the 2019 European Elections Campaign in Italy". Congrats to Roberta Bracciale (Università di Pisa) Francesco Grisolia (ScuolaSantAnna), Antonio Martella (Università di Torino), and Maurizio Tesconi (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica CNR)!👏👏👏 medialab.sp.unipi.it/2022/06/05/vin…

Our latest work on the effects of collective inauthentic behavior on Twitter is now available on Decision Support System 👉🏻 bit.ly/Coordinatedina…

Have you ever wondered where fake accounts come from? In this paper, we monitor the behaviour of 23,579 fake accounts for sale on a Russian underground market. #fakeaccounts #fakepeople Istituto di Informatica e Telematica CNR sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What are the differences between trolls, social bots and humans? You can find the answer here: doi.org/10.1016/j.comc… #socialbot #trolls

Conference in Osaka, Japan! We partecipate with “MulBot: Unsupervised Bot Detection Based on Multivariate Time Series” by Lorenzo Mannocci, Stefano Cresci, Anna Monreale, Athina Vakali, Maurizio Tesconi, involving Università di Pisa, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica CNR, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) #phd #university

"Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like #GPT4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar" #closedai

🤖Is #bot detection a solved task? Is social bots research of any use? How many bots are on #Twitter? 🗨In our latest work we set to correct some factual errors and demystify common #misconceptions in social bots research ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2303.17251 🧵(1/)

Hello Yelena Mejova ! An interesting piece, surely relevant, but with its own severe drawbacks, as highlighted in arxiv.org/abs/2303.17251 We are interested in the readers' opinions on our preprint as well! Angelo Spognardi Stefano Cresci Roberto Di Pietro Maurizio Tesconi

Glad to know. We Stefano Cresci Roberto Di Pietro Angelo Spognardi Maurizio Tesconi Marinella Petrocchi contributed to the discussion too, about datasets for bot detection and how to do detection, here our work arxiv.org/abs/2303.17251 Please followers give us your opinion!🤖

This paper seems to have serious flaws, as highlighted by Stefano Cresci Marinella Petrocchi Roberto Di Pietro Angelo Spognardi Maurizio Tesconi here: arxiv.org/abs/2303.17251

"it is paramount to avoid propagating the common misconceptions that haunt social bots literature and that currently fuel ambiguities, generalized misunderstandings, and frictions among scholars" 👏👏👏 Stefano Cresci Roberto Di Pietro Angelo Spognardi Maurizio Tesconi Marinella Petrocchi

Prime example of the dangers in the pay-to-verify system: This account, which tweeted a (very likely AI-generated) photo of a (fake) story about an explosion at the Pentagon, looks at first glance like a legit Bloomberg news feed.

A few more days left to apply to the Italian National PhD in AI "AI & Society" | Aug 7 deadline approaching! Join a multi-disciplinary PhD at the cutting-edge of research in #HumanCenteredAI | Apply here to one of 52 fully-funded positions linkedin.com/posts/dino-ped…

🤩 Super excited to announce that European Research Council (ERC) has awared me with an #ERCStG grant for my project DEDUCE! I'll be working on 📊 data-driven and 🎯 personalized content #moderation. Infinitely thankful to all those who supported me. Get in touch if interested in this research!

OpenAI announces leadership transition openai.com/blog/openai-an…