There was a time where JK was accusing everyone of being a bot. Though I was intrigued by the idea, I never really followed it until I started getting comment spam up the ying-yang. His philosophical hmmm’s starting making sense when faced with the manual deletion of 500 messages about phenadrine and penis-pumps.
Within the last year, someone in the circle of bloggers said that perhaps spam is the “baby-talk” of an artificial life form that is trying to communicate with us.
This may be old news, but my friend Phil found a blog today that is written by a fairly sophisticated script: Michelin Aquiana.
If this AI is indeed trying to communicate with us, perhaps we should leave legitimate questions on one of it’s blogs and attempt to start a discussion. If *it* wants to leave floods of comments on our sites, perhaps we should show that we are, in fact, listening and initiate a deliberate response.
What would you ask of the first truly intelligent machine?
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This may be old news, but my friend Phil found a blog today that is written by a fairly sophisticated script: Michelin Aquiana.
Whaaa?
It certainly looks like machine-driven syntax, but how do we know it’s machine-generated? Is there a person behind this? Tell me more about how you found this out and anymore backstory you have. This is a topic of extreme interest to me.
Well, Kylark, I’m pretty sure it’s a script. I mean, c’mon, blog posts about home equity loans?
What’s wierd is that some of the posts AREN’T spam-related, which kind of throws everything off.
Like this one, that is on there twice:
“The dogs are out barking. I hope it’s not a bear tonight. It’s about that season for bears to start coming out of their dens.”
That’s fucking CREEEEPY.
And this one made me gasp today when I read it:
“Sales training video
When I think about sales training video I feel good, because it reminds me of when I was a kid. I wish there were more things I could remember about my childhood.”
I left a comment today asking *it* what its intentions were with the human race.
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