Researcher uses Grok to surface 227 suspected UAE bot accounts overnight
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-10-22
German researcher Florian Gallwitz reports that feeding GrokBot his paper on UAE bots—with a few dozen examples—and asking it to "find similar" yielded hundreds of accounts following the exact same pattern overnight. Screenshots show 227 accounts with telltale traits: AI-generated avatars, celebrity photos, and stock imagery typical of coordinated bot networks.
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