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I feel ridiculous having to claim this up front, but I am also not a pedophile... however, I would very much like to find this chatbot and have a very long conv
by bmelton 13y ago
I feel ridiculous having to claim this up front, but I am also not a pedophile... however, I would very much like to find this chatbot and have a very long conversation. In fact, I might even be inclined to write a reverse chat bot that actually initiated conversations to this chat bot from a myriad of IP addresses, just to illustrate the innocuousness of it all.
- freejack 13y agoI refuse to make any disclaimer. My question is, what is the crime if someone is "chatting" with a bot? Any crime I could imagine would require a bad actor to actually engage with a person - how is it a crime if there is no victim? Maybe I'm just naive or missing some apparent point but this really mystifies me.
- mdda 13y agoNot to defend their approach, but... The chatbot could be used to harmlessly engage with people in chatrooms, and flag 'grooming behaviour'. Then, those conversations could be stepped into by an actual person - saving having actual people monitoring the chatroom full time. The police move in when the IRL meeting takes place, and the suspected paedophile arrives full of evil intentions - at which point, the police have plenty of profiling experience and the guy probably takes a plea. So the chatbot is more about whittling down the suspicious participant list, without soaking up police time.