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		<title>Falling in the middle in the debate on AI is still an uncomfortable place</title>
		<link>http://research.gigaom.com/2014/11/falling-in-the-middle-in-the-debate-on-ai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 20:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the inexorable rise of AI and robots proceeds, the division is growing between those that embrace cognitive computing and Intelligence as a Service as an inevitable good and those that&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter details its anti-spam system, BotMaker</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/08/20/twitter-details-its-anti-spam-system-botmaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derrick Harris]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter has developed a system called BotMaker to deal with its spam problem. Essentially, BotMaker scans messages before they're posted, after they're posted, and as part of bulk data analyses in&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s why Twitter probably doesn&#8217;t mind that some of its users are robots</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/08/12/heres-why-twitter-probably-doesnt-mind-that-some-of-its-users-are-robots/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/08/12/heres-why-twitter-probably-doesnt-mind-that-some-of-its-users-are-robots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Automated]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter has released updated figures on how many of its users read tweets using some kind of third-party or automated service, saying about 20 million accounts fit that description. While these&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>This week in bitcoin: Do we blame the bots?</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/05/30/this-week-in-bitcoin-do-we-blame-the-bots/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/05/30/this-week-in-bitcoin-do-we-blame-the-bots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Biz Carson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise and rise of bitcoin price last year could be blamed on two bots, dubbed Willy and Markus.]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn names company that used bots to steal profiles for competing Recruiter service</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/04/01/linkedin-names-company-that-used-bots-to-steal-profiles-for-competing-recruiter-service/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/04/01/linkedin-names-company-that-used-bots-to-steal-profiles-for-competing-recruiter-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Roberts]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A start-up that sells $799 subscriptions to recruiters is stocking its database with profiles that it obtained from LinkedIn by using an army of bots.]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn sues to stop bots that are stealing its user profiles</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/01/07/linkedin-sues-to-stop-bots-that-are-stealing-its-user-profiles/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/01/07/linkedin-sues-to-stop-bots-that-are-stealing-its-user-profiles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Roberts]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LinkedIn says unknown people have been creating a wave of fake profiles in order to scrape the profiles of hundreds of thousands of users, and offer a competing recruiting product. Here's&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chatty, contest-loving robots now 10% of web traffic, says study</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2012/09/28/chatty-contest-loving-robots-now-10-of-web-traffic-says-study/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2012/09/28/chatty-contest-loving-robots-now-10-of-web-traffic-says-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Roberts]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A growing army of bots are doing everything from leaving comments to entering sweepstakes, harming the online environment for both publishers and advertisers. Solve Media has a study on the problem. ]]></description>
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		<title>Many Brands Are Paying To Show Ads To Bots, Piracy Sites</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2012/03/26/419-many-brands-are-paying-to-show-ads-to-bots-piracy-sites/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2012/03/26/419-many-brands-are-paying-to-show-ads-to-bots-piracy-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Roberts]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Fraud is the elephant in the digital room" according to a report on digital ad campaigns published today by metrics company comScore (NSDQ:&#8230;]]></description>
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