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      Even Good Bots Fight

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          In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media, and content-editing bots in online collaboration communities. The online world has turned into an ecosystem of bots. However, our knowledge of how these automated agents are interacting with each other is rather poor. In this article, we analyze collaborative bots by studying the interactions between bots that edit articles on Wikipedia. We find that, although Wikipedia bots are intended to support the encyclopedia, they often undo each other's edits and these sterile "fights" may sometimes continue for years. Further, just like humans, Wikipedia bots exhibit cultural differences. Our research suggests that even relatively "dumb" bots may give rise to complex interactions, and this provides a warning to the Artificial Intelligence research community.

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              2016-09-14
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              1609.04285
              06443ca7-de50-419a-8eb8-c149f96b551e

              http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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              cs.SI cs.CY cs.HC physics.soc-ph

              Social & Information networks,General physics,Applied computer science,Human-computer-interaction

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