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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 01:39 PM
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Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense
When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25964/?p1=A3

It's funny. It seems like I'm responding to a SCAM/Woo chatbot much of the time, here at DU.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 02:00 PM
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1. lol
Sometimes I think most of the health forum are posts made by chatbots since the same nonsense seems to be repeated over and over again
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:45 PM
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2. I can think of one poster there whom I'm pretty sure is a salesbot n/t
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 01:29 AM
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3. They deleted the entire subthread!
I'm sure that Intracell isn't happy.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 09:03 AM
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4. Haha
Yeah, I saw that it was gone. An appropriate response by the mods, I think. Hopefully they also told that particular salesbot to reprogram itself.
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