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It's weird that the person who originally found the accounts thought they were bots - how advanced do people think chatbots are?
by sincerely 8y ago
It's weird that the person who originally found the accounts thought they were bots - how advanced do people think chatbots are?
- xnxn 8y agoSome folks use "bot" as a synonym for "sockpuppet". I wouldn't read into it too much
- freehunter 8y agoYou might be surprised at what the state of the art is in very limited fields like this. They wouldn't be able to engage in back-and-forth, but seeing a tweet that says "@amazon just pay your workers more", a bot can churn out a response of "Did you know that Amazon pays warehouse workers 30% more than other retailers?" pretty easily. One human just writes 1,000 responses and maps them to various keywords. Scan for those keywords and pick a response that fits the keywords best and boom, done. Completely automated.
- aisofteng 8y agoUsing keywords isn’t accurate enough; you’d use a classifier for this.