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Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles
cylonlover writes "For a number of years now, police forces around the world have enlisted officers to pose as kids in online chat rooms, in an attempt to draw out pedophiles and track them down. Researchers at Spain's University of Deusto are now hoping to free those cops up for other duties, and to catch more offenders, via a chatbot that they've created. Its name is Negobot, and it plays the part of a 14 year-old girl."
(Read the original source, in Spanish).
...and the spanish girls will have to start being even more slutty to compete with the slutbots.
What could possibly go wrong?
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
eof
If you are a robot you have to tell me...
...which passes the Turing test.
What if others create bots posing as pedophiles? Can anyone be prosecuted for doing so?
The real ones would then disappear in the noise.
Such police bots cannot catch bad guys, just will direct them to other places where is is harder to catch them.
Vajk
It's going to be very interesting to watch the pedophile robots chat with the girl robots. Wait, this is not the first time I've seen poetry written that way.
Man.. this bot is going to get laid more than I do, and it's specifically designed to NOT get laid..
unfortunately, in Spain the "undercover agent" is illegal. So, either this bot created at Deusto University (my university, btw) or Flu Ad are great projects that can not be used by Spanish police.
Flu AD is an open source Trojan software designed to infect computers used by pedophiles. It succeeded at least in one case in South America (I don't have the details) and have been studied by Spanish police.
More on Flu AD:
- http://www.slideshare.net/rootedcon/juan-a-calles-y-pablo-gonzlez-metasploit-fluad-avoiding-avs-with-payloadsdlls-injection-rooted-con-2013
- http://www.flu-project.com/
At the same time, Spanish goverment has a project to legalize Trojans in the investigation of serious criminal cases.
regards,
Unless doing so would harm you, or cause harm to come to you.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
Where can I get one of these 14 y.o bots?
For scientific purposes, I assure you.
(Is it illegal to write a chatbot that simulates a 14 y.o?)
14 years would be legal age in Germany.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe And if I can trust the link, it is 13 in Spain...
How will the bot catch pedophiles if it pretends to be a 14 year old girls? Pedophiles won't be very interested, instead it might, in best/worst case, attract hebephiles. Or just normal teenage boys.
Age of consent in Spain is 13 though they plan to raise it. Seems like a 14 year old is an odd choice to emulate for that reason.
That said, an AI capable of simulating a 14 year old girl? Hard to imagine they could even simulate a 5 year old successfully. This doesn't seem like a good use of a universities resources.
Pity only a small fraction of pedophiles are out looking on the internet. That and the fact that if the penalties are higher, people will do more to hide their crimes, like instead of threatening their victims, they'll lock them up in a basement, or fit them with some cement shoes for a quick dip in the local river.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
14 year old girls are chat bots? The times, they are a changing.
Then later on you find that they were wrongly accused.
13 year old girl - FBI
14 year old girl - Spanish inquisition, I mean police.
version/language/repository?
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
Next: Pedophiles will educate themselves about Turing tests, in order to defeat the chatbots.
Next: Anyone who informs himself about Turing tests will become suspect of being pedophile.
Did someone watch Death Race last night?
sudo make me a sandwich
Fortunately, entrapment is illegal in a lot of countries. And "intent" is not always what counts. I read that that in The Netherlands someone who was having sexually oriented chats with a police officer posing as a child was cleared in court. The judge said that because the police officer was over 18 he did nothing illegal, and that he may have intended something illegal didn't make it so.
To make the car comparison: if I intend to drive too fast and believe I do so dus to a defective meter but in fact I am driving at a legal speed I can't get a ticket.
I thought 14 was the age of consent in Spain. Juanita... come in here. I have to ask you something...
I think the pedo laws are completely out of hand, but the idea that severe penalties will cause molesters to kill their victims is bogus. The kind of person who murders is already sociopathic enough that any amount of penalty is going to be enough to justify murdering their victim. Even if there was absolutely no legal penalty they would still have to worry about parents going vigilante on them.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Or Running Man
Just wait until these slut-bots start falling to buffer overflows, SQL or shell injection attacks, or whatever.
Pity that people attracted to 14 year olds are not pedodophiles, and they think they will catch pedophiles like this.
Shall we play a game?
This suffers from the usual problems. You need something like a balanced court process to be really sure the person you find really is guilty, and that means letting some 80% sure cases walk free. Also you can't make amends if you find out you killed the wrong person.
And you know this how...? Oh, you're a bot too! Clever!
So if we use the same tactics for prostitution...? (rather than an undercover cop acting as a hooker, put a robot)
I really don't get it. I mean, let's end the pedo-war once and for all, if possible, but I see it as something that isn't possible. Pedophiles have been around for a long time, and many simply lie in wait, if ever acting on the impulse anyway.
When I was 14, I'd have been all about chatting-to-fuck some older ladies. However, since I was 14 when the internet was non-existent, I stuck with fantasizing about my friends' moms'. Had I the internet, I'd have been all about hooking up with older chicks.
...oh wait, this is about 14 yo girls.
Since biologically we're programmed to want sex at 12/13 (when puberty kicks in), this 'fear of sex' is a religious thing more than anything.
Florida has been arresting 14 year olds for sexting their 14 year old boyfriends, IMHO, the NSA should stop spying on 14 years old sexting each other and its a perfectly normal part of growing up to be interested in sex. No more than 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours".
for a moment there i mispronounced the name of the magazine as "jizzmag" and thought that it was rather inappropriate....
Spanish police have an APB out for suspects named 'Eliza', 'Perry', and 'A.L.I.C.E.'
[Insert pithy quote here]
Maybe I am a bit jaded from recent experience but...
After spending some time this weekend trying to play an online video game with a relative of that age, I have trouble seeing the problem. Trying to explain to him how what he was doing in game was ruining the fun for my wife and I reminded me quite a bit of talking to a chatbot (it was every bit as effective)
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are AIs run by FBI agents.
If it's posing as a 14 year old, they're not targeting pedophiles.
And you know this how...?
Because he has a grasp of the English language that extends beyond calling every gun an "assault rifle", every worthless punk a "terrorist", every deadbeat a "victim of poor credit", and everyone who disagrees with him "faaaaaags"?
Going after 14YOs would make someone an ephebophile, not a pedo.
/ Read a book!
Who's the victim in this?
Or do automated programs now constitute as people?
In the U.S they are sending in the SWAT to break down doors and raid homes based on the opinion of a dog, and in Spain they now want to leave this detail to a chat-bot. What could go wrong?
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But officer, I thought that 14-year-old girl was a bot, I just looovveeee hot conversations with bots that pretend to be 14 year old girls!
Horny men looking for sex with underage extinct birds are all over the Internet, right?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
assuming that the actual, if-not-for-a-sting, molestation would have ever actually happened. intent != committing. fuck, i hate to defend them, but c'mon man.
then we have the fact, that if we start killing pedos, it just ups the rate of them permanently silencing their victims as to not get caught. i guess you'd rather have a dead kid than a molested one.
Capital punishment for sex crimes that don't kill the victim is illegal in the United States.
However, in the country that brought you The Spanish Inquisition, this might just fly....
Obligatory question: Which head to chop off first?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Man.. this bot is going to get laid more than I do
What's the smallest whole number greater than zero?
PS: I think your statement applies to most /. readers.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
"If they make the bot good enough it'll become too hard to tell a bot from a kid with enough certainty for a botophile to be sure they are not chatting with an actual 14 year old, in which case the poor botophile will be arrested for doing something he had no intention of doing, namely, chatting up an underaged human being."
There, fixed that for you.
Botophile: Someone who loves to get it on with bots.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Or you're in the Time of Eve cafe and everyone is ordered to act human and treat everyone as human.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
lg: I ARE LITTLE GIRL
pedo: what?
lg: U WANT CHAT
pedo: what?
lg: TELL ME MORE ABOUT what?.
Then later on you find that they were wrongly accused.
Bad argument because it applies to ANY and ALL types of punishment.
Using the "logic" of that argument, it would be impossible to punish anyone for any crime.
In the United States, the Miller Test applies.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Its name is Negobot.
Isn't that racist?
I have a bad feeling tech journalism forgot all the lessons they should have learned from the Nanniebot hoax.
Then later on you find that they were wrongly accused.
Bad argument because it applies to ANY and ALL types of punishment.
Using the "logic" of that argument, it would be impossible to punish anyone for any crime.
I have to disagree. There's no way you can un-behead someone. You can at least release them from jail and try to restore some sort of normalcy to their lives.
Or iCarly? Oops, wrong chat.