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no-one got my obvious war games reference
I recognised it as a meme but haven't seen the film so thought no more about it.
Let the bots talk amongst themselves
Hmm, I've just been re-reading Excession
Tony
Teacake
Turing
Test
Heavens, surely not that obvious to everyone then?
We're not all dentists 😉
Anyway....
Don't feed the troll bot.
We’re not all dentists 😉
Obliviously, some of us are bots.
So..Chewy, JHJ... any others we can think of?
'bot' implies a level of sophistication I'm not sure is there, it looked to me more like cut-and-paste spam spreading doubt in financial structures (of the west?) do this in enough places people may start to think 'I must protect myself from this potential downturn' before you know it market instability. After all financial markets don't reflect the value of businesses now, but where people think value will be in future. Change enough minds and a real financial impact can be made. FUD? Fear Uncertainty Doubt. Timing too, do it Saturday lunchtime when you can't trade till Monday to amplify effects.
BTW I know people who would fail the Turing Test so I'm not sure that's helpful 😉
If this AI stuff is so bloody clever, could someone ask it to
-Add a like button
-Stop adds from bogging down the whole thing
-Make the search function work
😆
That’s an interesting point leffeboy, what do you think of the future for smelling bots?
Possibly having to complete an ‘I am not a bot’ test checking photos for ones with bicycles, VW T3/4/5 vans or mugs of tea with cake?
Which is a terrifying thought, it’s bad enough already with the sodding cookie permission pop-up!
I just assumed the whole point was to identify the home owning boomers of STW so they could be targeted separately and either convince them to put the surpluses millions they obviously all have into crypto, or to sign their their property over for cash and avoid the (apparently inevitable) property crash…
Christ, it’s bad enough that I regularly get junk mail through the door from local estate agents trying to persuade me to sell my house! 😖🤬
It’s now got me wondering if there is a way to hijack the conversation and get [the bots] talking (even more) total bollocks.
A haunting thought:
The only inhabitants of a post-apocalyptical web will be inane chattering bots on whatever services remain online.
Possibly having to complete an ‘I am not a bot’ test checking photos for ones with bicycles, VW T3/4/5 vans or mugs of tea with cake?
I sometimes fail these and those ones where you have to type in the characters.
The only inhabitants of a post-apocalyptical web will be inane chattering bots on whatever services remain online.
So the YouTube comments section then?
I tried to break bot sometimes when trying to call customer service online. LOL!
Following the above, what happens if a Bot realises it's a Bot.....
The only inhabitants of a post-apocalyptical web will be inane chattering bots on whatever services remain online.
Probably covered in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy somewhere. DNA was a perceptive chap.
Many companies are now using bots for at least the initial part of your communication with them.
Social media interactions broadly fall into two fields I believe:
Influencing for the purpose of advertising (very effective on some people given the two young people sitting next to me on the train yesterday).
Influencing for the purpose of political or financial manipulation.
Bots are also used to collect and assemble data (eg the equal pay bot on twitter recently). Similarly aggregating and automating buying processes - eg your car bot.
It doesn’t have to convince anyone, you don’t have to believe anything – its job is just put the a question in someones thoughts that wasn’t there before.
The likes of the Daily Mail have been dining out on this approach for years, the 'headline as a question' gambit means you can say what you like without recourse. "COULD TURMERIC CAUSE CANCER" might be an innocuous example; the answer of course is invariably "no" but it might cause the hard of thinking to stop buying turmeric. Now replay that with something about immigrants. It's Propaganda 101.
I think your all bots as no-one got my obvious war games reference 🙂
A curious game, Professor Falken.
Heavens, surely not that obvious to everyone then?
It was a blatant clue. Blatant!
Wait, are you telling me you've been playing the crap version of Rimmer?
The idea of two bots talking to each other is not as exciting as the thought of what would happen if I plugged my USB power pack into itself. Actually, what would happen?
For example, yesterday I got what was obviously an automated call saying there had been dodgy activity on my ID and bank and before they issued an arrest warrant in my name I should press ‘1’ on my phone to talk to the police
I just had that 5 mins ago, although I don't think it was a bot, if it was having a message in English with an indian accent telling me my German ID card had been misused lacked sophistication. I believe pressing 1 calls out to a new premium rate number, so surely there should be a simple technical fix on the phone network to resolve that issue.
I am all for a law making people having to verify online accounts to drive out the bots and trolls.
Wait, are you telling me you’ve been playing the crap version of Rimmer?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
‘headline as a question’
Add to that the 'question as an accusation' gambit, which politicians have been dining out on for years also!
When I read or hear about 'bots' doing this, I immediately imagine a robot sat at a computer, with robot fingers typing on a keyboard... reading a screen..
Please tell me this is how it works....
PLEASE....
DrP
lOoks loke he can type as gud as m3!
Infinite power,
Itty-bitty living space!
I believe pressing 1 calls out to a new premium rate number, so surely there should be a simple technical fix on the phone network to resolve that issue.
Not as far as I know and I haven't seen any charges. Got a second one today but just ignored it. I like that on Android phones you can mark them as spam to reduce the chances of others getting called. Almost all of the fake you have a parcel type texts get blocked as spam now
What sandwich did there…
I see it.
*doffs cap*