https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3v579/twitter-accounts-with-ai-generated-cat-avatars-at-center-of-turkish-porn-bot-ring

A data scientist has uncovered a Twitter bot network made up of accounts that have unique avatars featuring AI-generated women, anime characters, and cats. They talk incessantly in Turkish about porn and sports betting.

Twitter bots are getting harder to spot. It used to be easier: when you saw a Twitter egg that had a user name followed by a string of random numbers, you knew you were probably dealing with an account run by a bot. Thanks to machine learning, those accounts now have randomly-generated human faces, a well-known problem. But it's not just faces: there's AI-generated cats and anime avatars, too. These accounts look authentic, but they’re not.