Law in the Internet Society

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 Though I continue to wait for my robot butler, internet bots are already here, and they are ubiquitous, infiltrating even our dating lives. My most recent interaction with an internet bot was with a chatbot for a certain cellular service provider. Despite the bot’s best of intentions in trying to resolve my billing issue, the dialogue ended with a string of regrettable words uttered by one of the parties (that were apparently recorded and alluded to during a subsequent phone call with a human customer service representative). Clearly there is room for improvement on the automated customer service front.
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<		But chatbots and girls that ask me to send them money before our date are not the only frustrating iterations of these internet bots. Anyone who followed the 2016 American Presidential Election has no doubt heard of the influence of "social media bots" on the election results. Research suggests that social bots are responsible for much of the spread of low-credibility content. One report estimated that between 9% and 15% of Twitter accounts are automated.
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>		But chatbots are not the only frustrating iterations of these internet bots. Anyone who followed the 2016 American Presidential Election has no doubt heard of the influence of "social media bots" on the election results. Research suggests that social bots are responsible for much of the spread of low-credibility content. One report estimated that between 9% and 15% of Twitter accounts are automated.
 These bots also undermine the credibility of earnest political activists, who may be mistaken for bots and banned from social media platforms. In 2018, for instance, Facebook deleted the page of Shut It Down DC, an organization formed to combat the spread of white supremacists in Washington, D.C. Online discussion forums such as Reddit have also been disrupted, as users sometimes doubt whether they are dialoguing with others who harbor genuine beliefs.

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