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AI-driven bot network trying to help Trump win US election


Ahead of the US presidential election, a large bot network has been drumming up support for Donald Trump on social media platform X. The researcher who found the network called it "big, but crude."

Thomas also reports that some accounts argued with themselves or posted refusals, "although it happens rarely enough that whoever built the network has clearly found a way around OpenAI's safeguards which works fairly well." "I'm guessing this is some sort of guardrail within OpenAI kicking in and preventing the bot from endorsing Musk's election fraud nonsense," Thomas wrote on X. Researchers of Clemson University in South Carolina found an army of political propaganda accounts posing as real people.

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