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Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet

One morning in January this year, marine scientist Terry Hughes opened X (formerly Twitter) and searched for tweets about the Great Barrier Reef."I keep an eye on what's being tweeted about the reef every day," Professor Hughes, a leading coral researcher at James Cook University, said.What he found that day surprised and confused him; hundreds of bot accounts tweeting the same strange message with slightly different wording."Wow, I had no idea that agricultural runoff could have such a devastat...

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