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Can you tell a bot from a human online? Surfshark's new experiment says nearly half of us cannot
- Surfshark's Bot or Not experiment shows 47% of participants misidentified bots as humans.
- Bot detection was strongest in data centers and pineapple debates, weaker in emotionally charged topics.
- The study links performance to emotion, showing a drop in detection as debates heated up.
- Younger users aged up to 20 performed the best, with a notable decline after age 40.
- Surshark's study suggests emotion rather than literacy is the key challenge in bot detection.
- The Bot or Not game is publicly accessible at botornot.one for anyone to try against the original participants.
- The broader point: bots are multiplying and evading detection as platforms refine anti-bot efforts.
- Surfshark's experiment used 710 participants from Malmő University to simulate moderation.
- The simulation topics included cold and hot subjects to measure detection under varying emotional loads.
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