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Etsy also had another Markov-based chatbot named Snakebot that sat in various IRC channels, and kept a model of what "typical" messages in a given channel looke
by notpachet 4y ago
Etsy also had another Markov-based chatbot named Snakebot that sat in various IRC channels, and kept a model of what "typical" messages in a given channel looked like. Then whenever someone would accidentally type a message including the letters "sb", the bot would awaken, and it would randomly generate a message from its corpus and send it to that channel. This included pinging people directly, or using teams' dedicated "alert words" (this was before the scourge of Slack's @here or @channel). After all, those were valid nodes in its Markov chain...
It would also respond to sequences of uppercase letters (including things like uppercase sequences in pasted URLs) by YELLING A MARKOV-BASED MESSAGE IN ALL CAPS.
It was horrible.
- mst 4y agoSuch bots have, however, helped me to up my /ignore game.
- Fnoord 4y agoYeah but ignore is client side, you still receive the garbage. With silence (available on some networks) you could make the server to ignore that person. Especially helpful if ypu had limited bandwidth or were getting flooded.