Botwatch proposes a decentralized, trust-based system for detecting bots on social platforms using community voting. Users publish bot/human assessments of others and trust ratings for other users' scoring abilities, creating personalized bot scores based on social networks. The system aims to combat the growing problem of AI-generated bots and state-sponsored influence campaigns through collective intelligence.
Background
As AI-generated content and state-sponsored influence campaigns proliferate, distinguishing between human and bot accounts on social platforms has become increasingly challenging. Existing centralized verification systems have limitations in scalability and adaptability to evolving bot tactics.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Mar 24, 2026 at 11:32 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10