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Russian computer programme fakes chatroom flirting

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UPDATED: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:27
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:13 AM

CITIZEN


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Internet chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person, trying to win your personal data and not your heart, an online security firm says.

A Russian website called CyberLover.ru is advertising a software tool that, it says, can simulate flirtatious chatroom exchanges. It boasts that it can chat up as many as 10 women at the same time and persuade them to hand over phone numbers.

An Australian anti-virus software firm, PC Tools, has warned that the software could be abused by identity fraudsters trying to harvest people's personal details online. The Russian site denied it was intended for identity fraud.

The programme, so far available only in Russian, will go on sale around February 15, just after St Valentine's Day, said the CyberLover.ru website.

"Not a single girl has yet realised that she was communicating with a programme!" it said, adding that the programme could also simulate virtual sex online.


http://uk.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKKIM32972520071213



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Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:15 AM

ANTHONYT

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Sounds like it passes the Turing test, if true.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:27 AM

CITIZEN


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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Sounds like it passes the Turing test, if true.

If so, why aren't they submitting it there? I doubt it, I suspect it's very clever about it's ignorance, that is it's specialised to carry on a particular conversation, but wouldn't be convincing in a real conversation.

Ask it what it had for dinner.



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Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:56 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Yeah, there's a bunch of similar ones running around various instant messenger services too, and while most are pretty awful, there's a couple of em out there that are pretty slick, but they are indeed easy enough to trip up, especially when confronted by a sideways thinker to begin with.

Had a funny incident when I suspected a fellow gamer on an MMO who was asking for help and told him to sing to me before I assisted him, and he starts signing Dixie... we both cracked up.

I dunno about a person, but also, when I was an IRC Admin I had a bot that would randomly simulate feline behavior, programmed over the course of a week of simply observing my own cats, I think it might still be in use on at least one net (it does other stuff too, mind).. that was a cool bot.

Those with kids especially should look out for these however, due to the simplicity of conversation and naivety of children, some advertisers and even less savory folk have introduced bots of this type to kid networks, just so you know.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:01 AM

KAREL

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It fakes chatroom flirting? I am so hosed!

*snort*


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Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:17 AM

RUE

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Damn ! I can't find the other story.

As I remember it, Microsoft had a (computer program) Santa in a chat room, and from time to time something would trigger the Santa to swear and/ or talk about nasty sex. From what I gathered it got to be a game with some of the human participants - seeing what words or phrases would trigger the worst. Anyway, u-soft pulled the plug on that one.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:03 AM

HERO


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Originally posted by citizen:
Internet chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person


Wow, I thought they were talking about this girl I dated a couple years back.

H

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:07 AM

HERO


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Originally posted by rue:
As I remember it, Microsoft had a (computer program) Santa in a chat room, and from time to time something would trigger the Santa to swear and/ or talk about nasty sex.


Wow...I am currently dating this girl and last Christmas she dressed up in a sexy-Santa outfit and we...well, never mind.

H

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:27 AM

FREMDFIRMA


"Wow, I thought they were talking about this girl I dated a couple years back."

You dated her too, eh ?
Seems everyone did.

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