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They're not real, they're Twitter chat bots. That Amazon thinks this was a good PR move is truly astonishing.
by vinceguidry 7y ago
They're not real, they're Twitter chat bots. That Amazon thinks this was a good PR move is truly astonishing.
- maxerickson 7y agoIt's not astonishing enough to make you doubt your analysis.
- Reedx 7y agoIt’s astonishing people are so confident these are bots. No real evidence of that and it’s more likely they’re real. Occam’s razor.
- vinceguidry 7y agoThe evidence came a bit further down with one commenter posting a picture of one being male in one post and female in another.
- Sharlin 7y agoThat's just evidence that multiple humans share the same account for whatever reason.
- vinceguidry 7y agoMy guess on how it's happening is that Amazon Turk workers are presented with tweets and then they select from a list of machine-generated responses. I'd still call those bots.
- rtkwe 7y agoI think it's more likely they all use shared computers and one person didn't log out of their account. The same way Ted Cruz's account liked a porn tweet about some incest porn, media guy (because as much as I love the idea of Ted f*ing Cruz trolling twitter for some porn I doubt the man runs his own twitter) forgot to log out of the account he was managing, is probably how we got this multi-aged meta human.
- mtgx 7y agoI think there's a higher chance these as Amazon Mechanical Turk workers rotating behind the same Twitter accounts. Anyone remember that "virtual boyfriend" service that had rotating people behind the "virtual boyfriend" for the same person? It feels like that.
- tictoc 7y agoWhat about the initial guy that says he has a grandchild when he's like a young guy from the phillipines?
- Sharlin 7y agoThere does not exist a 1:1 correspondence between Twitter accounts and individual humans.
- thearn4 7y agoBots or not, it's not very authentic or honest, and certainly not good PR.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoThey're people (one person?) following a corporate script, but they're clearly not literally chatbots. Chatbots aren't even this coherent.
- vinceguidry 7y agoMaybe not the ones you're used to but Amazon is a tech company at heart. They have the resources to improve on the algorithms. I'd love to meet the engineer responsible for this.