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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).
What could possibly go wrong?
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
...which passes the Turing test.
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Let me present you this new technology. It's called "The Internet". You can use it to look for answers to all your questions*.
*: For a fully immersive experience, all your questions should start with "nude pics of "
...and the spanish girls will have to start being even more slutty to compete with the slutbots.
But your honor, I was NOT engaging in pedophile behavior! See, I am really into sex bots! I KNEW it was a script and I get off on them!'
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!
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Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
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 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.
Shall we play a game?
Spanish police have an APB out for suspects named 'Eliza', 'Perry', and 'A.L.I.C.E.'
[Insert pithy quote here]
so are you ;)
If they make the bot good enough it'll become too hard to tell a kid from a bot with enough certainty for a pedo to be sure they're not walking into a police trap by meeting with the kid...in which case, mission accomplished.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
"Because water falls haha"
I can't imagine what the question that prompted that answer was and given the topic I'm not sure I want to know.
The previous chat line just says "Know why it seems that way?"
If it's posing as a 14 year old, they're not targeting pedophiles.
"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.
I don't know but as somebody who used to run a chatroom dedicated to fricking computer repair i can tell you that if the other chat rooms see/saw what i did what those cops are doing is bullshit and how it can't be entrapment? Fuck if I know. I know I ended up having to threaten harassment charges on a couple of cops to get them to finally STFU with that shit.
I mean here I am,running a chat with such "sexy" titles as "Can't install graphics driver" and "Need help bad I keep BSODing" and while me and a couple of the mods would be trying to walk some poor guy that has been bashing his head against the wall trying to get something fixed and suddenly here would come one of those fuckheads, just spewing filthy shit trying to get somebody to talk to them. By the end there i was getting seriously fucking PISSED, cursing the assholes after pointing out for the hundredth time "This isn't that kind of chat asshole, go peddle your "catch a predator" bullshit somewhere else porky".
So if the shit they are doing is the same as what i saw they can fuck right off, they push that shit even in places where it has no damned business and they will harass the hell out of guys to try to get them to talk, really sleazy shit too.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
No law was actually broken.
I know nothing about Spanish law, but if it is anything like American law, then there is no requirement that a real child, or even a second person, be involved. If, while alone in a locked room, you are turned on by a drawing of some stick-figures that could be perceived as under-age children, then you are breaking the law.
Yes, but betcha I know how they will get around that: As the chatbot homes in a suspect, it will offer a Google Map link to a meeting place. Unbeknownst to the suspect, the "I am here" pointer on the image will be a special copyrighted version of the regular map pin. Bingo - much heavier penalties than for mere child rape.