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Bot-avatar Pesters Second Life Users (For Science!)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yeah-sure-it-is dept.

holy_calamity writes "A bot-controlled avatar that tracks down lone avatars in Second Life and purposely invades their personal space has been created by UK researchers. The idea was to see if users value their virtual personal space. Bots avatars are not encouraged by Linden Labs — although this one is being deployed by academics, presumably spam-avatars (spavatars?) won't be far behind."

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  1. Re:Statistics! by speaker+of+the+truth · · Score: 0, Troll

    They were paid by spammers to produce a bot for Second Life and wanted to do it on university time so they put in this bullshit research.

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