Bots Acting Like Humans: Understanding and Preventing Harm

Bots are algorithmically driven entities that act like humans in conversations via Twitter, on Facebook, in chats or Q&A sites. This paper studies how they may affect online conversations, provides a taxonomy of harms that may be caused, and discusses how to prevent harm by studying when abuses occur.

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