“People fall for it all the time,” said Greg Paradee, a Chatting AIM Bot, or CAB, fan. “It acts so much like a real human, sometimes it’s hard not to fall for it. The bot … keeps conversation going with normal, everyday questions, so people answer those thinking it’s a real person.”
In this age of computer virus paranoia, I wouldn’t have used a “beware” headline for this story.
Note also that the author casually links to the Wikipedia entry on Infocom. (See “Librarian: Don’t Use Wikipedia as Source“)
Similar:
Horrifying deepfake tricks employee into giving away $25 million
No names in this single-source anecdote ...
Business
The dark future of American space exploration: NASA's golden age is about to come to a thu...
I remember, as a kid, being thrilled by ...
Culture
Pushing and pulling vertices. Components that fit together perfectly when I model them in ...
Aesthetics
Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor
A letter, published a few weeks ago, in ...
Business
Long Live the LARPers -- My daughter plays the antagonist in this award-winning 48 Hour Fi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku7wzUtO...
Aesthetics
Why Can't My New Employees Write? | Just Visiting
We’re talking about elite students here ...
Academia

