Every bot-detection technique is based on a human's intuition.
By Hemaja Burud
techbugfix.com
He is the creator of the well-known bot-detection system Bot Sentinel, and he regularly updates his machine learning models for fear of their becoming "stale."
In order to identify bots, Bot Sentinel's models must first be exposed to data in order to understand what constitutes harmful activity.
Bouzy's model can reportedly calibrate itself and uncover the exact essence of what, in his opinion, makes a tweet problematic by being given tweets that fall into bot or not a bot.
How bot hunters define and categorize tweets affects how their computers understand and categorize bot-like behavior in the nascent discipline of bot identification.
The ability of artificial intelligence to mimic a young child's comprehension of physics is one area where it has fallen short.
Before anybody can hunt bots, they must first determine what a bot is, and depending on who you ask, the definition varies.
Not just automated accounts, but also "difficult accounts," as Bouzy refers to them, are weeded out by Bot Sentinel.
They may be automated or operated by people, and they breach Twitter's rules of service by harassing or spreading false information.
Botometer is maintained by Kaicheng Yang, an informatics PhD candidate at Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media who also co-founded the tool alongside Menczer.
Any bot-detection system's objective effectiveness, however, is clouded by the reality that humans must still make decisions about which data to utilize while developing it.