Comments on: The Great Hatsby and Other IM Bots

By: mark

mark — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:08:41 +0000

all i say is l0l at these chatroom bots, they’re ridiculously stupid

By: Spam in the Twitterverse | The Noisy Channel

Spam in the Twitterverse | The Noisy Channel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:28:47 +0000

[...] is on the wall, and spammers will innovate to embrace social media. I’ve already experienced a few examples of such innovation, and I’m sure that they are child’s play compared to [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:14:51 +0000

Erica, I think you’re right that there’s no value here other than entertainment to whomever gets to view the logs and sadistic pleasure for whomever sic these bots on unsuspecting victims. I supposed you could use this technique to develop language models for conversation, but there are surely more effective and efficient ways to accomplish that goal.

By: Erica Naone

Erica Naone — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:54:30 +0000

Are these sorts of bots just pranks, or is there some commercial motivation on top of that? I thought spam comments were out to get clicks, but I can’t see the value (other than lulz) that someone might get from these IM bots.

By: Rethinking the ESP Game | The Noisy Channel

Rethinking the ESP Game | The Noisy Channel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:51:54 +0000

[...] Lemire commented recently that spammers may help make AI a reality. It’s interesting to see how yesterday’s [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:50:25 +0000

That is an interesting take on the Turing Test–dare I call it a Turing Test 2.0? Of course, these bots are “cheating” in that they are for the most part co-opting real human beings, and the comment spammers I cited are also mostly human-powered. So I see this more as social engineering than AI.

PS. If you are an AI, I think you’ve earned the right to live among us folk who are natural and aspiring towards intelligence. I’ll spare you from the Flesh Fairs.

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:44:46 +0000

Interesting. You know, it may very well these spammers who make AI a reality. We are challenged to differentiate human beings from machines, and we realize we cannot. See my posts My Fight Againt Comment SPAM: Spambots pass the Turing test! and How artificial intelligences are already at war with us. BTW do you think I am real, or a computer fabrication? How do you know?