Slutbot aces Turing Test*

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/12/slutbot_passes.php

by davidw • 19 years ago

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icky• 19 years ago

Clearly the human brain isn't at its best form when it's hr0ny.

thingsilearned• 19 years ago

Ha! Exactly. Its easier to fool the male organ than the male brain. :)

cellis• 19 years ago

I'm VERY eager to test this out!

kirse• 19 years ago

"...enticing randy gentlemen to reveal personal information that can then be put to criminal use."

Bot: A/S/L pix?

Internet Male: 22/M/FL no

Bot Log: [User demographics acquired, initiating build rapport sequence]

Bot: pres 456 if u want to see hot pix!

pc3• 19 years ago

Like a lot of articles on the topic, this one misrepresents (or misunderstands) the Turing Test. In a _true_ Turing Test, the humans aren't blindly conversing with the assumption that their conversant is human -- they're actively seeking to verify the presence of a human.

The non-Turing Test described in the article merely requires that contenders don't do anything blatantly inhuman, and is obviously trivial to "pass". Any contender for the actual Turing Test will do so with ease.

(I built a bot a few years ago that stored strings from IM conversations, and used the tokens of the preceding phrase as keywords for future lookups. It's hard to image a more naive algorithm, and yet, as in SlutBot's case, it didn't take long for most people to assume it was human.)

Also, with regard to SlutBot's use... is it still entrapment if the bot does it?

marcus2• 19 years ago

The fact that the chat is automated has nothing to do with it, of course it is still entrapment, just like you can't shoot somebody and claim the gun did it.

However if two separate entities were involved you can get around it, for example if spammers use the bot for their own purposes and the police happens to be monitoring a chat room but had nothing to do with launching/controlling the bot it wouldn't be entrapment.

pc3• 19 years ago

"The fact that the chat is automated has nothing to do with it, of course it is still entrapment, just like you can't shoot somebody and claim the gun did it."

I don't follow your gun analogy.

IANAL, but my understanding of the case law surrounding entrapment (in the US at least) is that the entrapped party has to have been actively induced to commit a crime. And so agreeing to sell crack when approached is not entrapment (no one was explicitly encouraged to do so), whereas repeatedly soliciting crack is.

I'm not sure where SlutBot would fall along this continuum, but it seems that there's at least a case that its use would be legally viable.

MuddyMo• 19 years ago

The real question: Are they using MySQL?

Slutbot aces Turing Test*

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