Bots are some DoorDash and Walmart Spark delivery gig workers' dirty secret

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A DoorDash delivery worker in New York City.

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Elon Musk blames 'spam/scam bot' for some pictures on X being labeled 'graphic content'

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Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022.

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OpenAI's GPT Store is being flooded by AI girlfriend bots despite explicit rules that prohibit them

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Sam Altman's company, OpenAI, recently launched the GPT Store.

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AI is killing the grand bargain at the heart of the web. 'We're in a different world.'

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AI screenwriter

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AI models from OpenAI and other tech giants are being bombarded by a new swarm of bots 'extracting intelligence'

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Elon Musk's suggested X paywall is too risky to succeed, experts say: 'It will only speed up the deterioration of a platform in chaos.'

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Elon Musk said a paywall for X could help combat bots on the platform.

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Merch, vinyl, hotels and credit cards: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour helped a bunch of companies – but hurt others

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Taylor Swift on stage on the Eras Tour.

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OpenAI just admitted it has a bot that crawls the web to collect AI training data. If you don't block GPTbot, that's self-sabotage.

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Huntsman spider.

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Twitter's new rivals suffer similar problems: Threads to use rate limits due to spam and Bluesky missed racist slurs

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The Threads app and Adam Mosseri.

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A business owner suing Twitter over unpaid bills says the company ignored her and answered her with a bot following Elon Musk's takeover

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Elon Musk.

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