Article 36M63 Botcheck.me: a plugin that predicts whether a Twitter user is a bot

Botcheck.me: a plugin that predicts whether a Twitter user is a bot

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Cory Doctorow
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Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte are 20 year old UC Berkeley students who turned a machine learning class assignment into a browser plugin that tries to guess whether a given Twitter profile is associated with a bot or a human, and assigns a probability score that takes into account the possibility that a bot has human pilots who can take over at key junctures. (more")

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