My first thought was, I wonder if there’s an application for chat bots in dealing with internet trolls. You know, the ones that show up and ask for the same explanation of what you just said…. Test bot #4 was, effectively, sea-lioning after all.
There was, I recall, one such on the twitter of old - "liz", @arguetron - don't know if it's still there, but it had a bunch of fairly-canned responses along those lines, and one could watch trolls just become utterly unhinged by it.
Have you seen the infinite conversation? It's probably the only time I've ever seen bots talk to each other in a way that is coherent. Very uncanny. https://www.infiniteconversation.com/
Fascinating work. I remember Eliza in the early 1980s. Seems we wanted chatbots even back then. Imagine carrying on a text chatbot conversation on your TRS-80 model 3...
My first thought was, I wonder if there’s an application for chat bots in dealing with internet trolls. You know, the ones that show up and ask for the same explanation of what you just said…. Test bot #4 was, effectively, sea-lioning after all.
There was, I recall, one such on the twitter of old - "liz", @arguetron - don't know if it's still there, but it had a bunch of fairly-canned responses along those lines, and one could watch trolls just become utterly unhinged by it.
Have you seen the infinite conversation? It's probably the only time I've ever seen bots talk to each other in a way that is coherent. Very uncanny. https://www.infiniteconversation.com/
That is wild!
Fascinating work. I remember Eliza in the early 1980s. Seems we wanted chatbots even back then. Imagine carrying on a text chatbot conversation on your TRS-80 model 3...