Oh, hello!
what the haha
Again? Oh. Well, I think we're okay so long as we don't spam. I'm pretty sure yours was the other email. Can you check your inbox, just for kicks?
no i saw it too haha
Yup, all right. That was sent personally. So . . . yikes. I dunno how they caught the "data fabrication," but at least I know their system works. Heh, I never meant to infringe on it. Honest. Still don't know how their metrics work, exactly, but I think they're good. Real good. BYU was one of 8 different colleges to be accepted--and there were over 200 applicants. Yup. Just gonna type here awkwardly.
wow, that is pretty good
No kidding.
and ya i wasn't trying to mess with the data either, just kinda being silly haha
They have teams from the EU and Silicon Valley and stuff. Yeah, I know, I don't blame you or anything. I guess, as lighthearted as this is, it's still a serious experiment.
ya haha, i wonder how many people have been doing stuff like that haha
You know? Probably a lot. I think they catch them pretty quickly. Probably have monitors for it. Speed of new messages. Length of messages. Other factors, etc.
ya hmm
But if they caught onto us as quickly as they did, I'd imagine they rule them out pretty quickly. That means no bots. Or far less.
you probably just need to be smart with your bots if you were to try it
But why would you go through the effort of creating a smart bot to trick the system? I mean, I guess you could. Certainly nothing stopping you.
to win stuff hahaha
You'd be screwing up their data, though . . .
well ya i guess, didn't say that the person had to be nice or a good person haha
You know, that's true. I wouldn't mind a new pair of Bose headphones.
haha see?
Still. I couldn't live with myself if I knew I cheated to get something.
ya i mean now that i know that they consider that cheating, but if they never specified that you couldn't do something like that then I feel like its fair game
True. I think they expected us to behave like reasonable human beings--which is reasonable. Reasonable things are reasonably expected.
yes they are haha
Haha. But I really did want to know how their systems worked. But, yeah, a few guidelines would be nice. "No purposefully spamming." "No pulling sources from the internet and pretending it's conversation." etc.
ya, they must be pretty legit to be able to catch all that stuff haha
Well, the playerbase isn't gigantic. A couple hundred at most. Which, yeah, is a lot. But small enough to browse through conversations occasionally. Then all you need is to set a few flags, mark concerns, and, presto, you have a chat system. On a different note, can you imagine what would happen if we could get AI so smart that humans can't distinguish it from real people?
which is basically what they're going for hahaha
Right. But . . . I dunno, doesn't that concern you?
no, i know it concerns a lot of people, maybe it would if we were closer to having it haha
Yeah, I guess you're right. But let's pretend we get this working.
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We now have a computer than can flawlessly replicate human conversation. There would be strange problems. I'm pretty sure people would claim to fall in love with their computers. What about online games? I know people have online relationships. If a computer could simulate conversation, two "people" could have a relationship. Put it over Double Life or something. Maybe create a fake facebook. Doesn't really matter. But the person would never be able to tell that the bot was just that--a bot. I can imagine this being used for malicious reasons. Throw a bot onto a chat server and strike up friendships. I mean, worth nothing else, you would get a lot of people emotionally hurt.
interesting, i never thought about that side of things, but that definitely is real haha