A case study finds 63 dual-subreddit users and flags a subset with sentiment and behavioral anomalies suggestive of coordinated influence, without significance testing or validation.
The Dual Personas of Social Media Bots
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Social media bots are AI agents that participate in online conversations. Most studies focus on the general bot and the malicious nature of these agents. However, bots have many different personas, each specialized towards a specific behavioral or content trait. Neither are bots singularly bad, because they are used for both good and bad information dissemination. In this article, we introduce fifteen agent personas of social media bots. These personas have two main categories: Content-Based Bot Persona and Behavior-Based Bot Persona. We also form yardsticks of the good-bad duality of the bots, elaborating on metrics of good and bad bot agents. Our work puts forth a guideline to inform bot detection regulation, emphasizing that policies should focus on how these agents are employed, rather than collectively terming bot agents as bad.
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Cross-Subreddit Behavior as Open-Source Indicators of Coordinated Influence: A Case Study of r/Sino & r/China
A case study finds 63 dual-subreddit users and flags a subset with sentiment and behavioral anomalies suggestive of coordinated influence, without significance testing or validation.