Researchers built a social network made of AI bots. They quickly formed cliques, amplified extremes, and let a tiny elite dominate

businessinsider.com/researchers-ai-bots-social-media-network-experiment-toxic-2025-8

The researchers populated a minimal social network with 500 AI chatbots and found that they replicated social media's dysfunctions.
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Researchers set up a simple social network for AI bots to see how they'd behave.
Without algorithms or recommendations, the bots…

This story appeared on businessinsider.com, 2025-08-14 05:03:40.
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