Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You

taikedz writes "A new patent has been filed by Google that tries to analyze your past communications to then construct responses to the overwhelming amount of posts you receive. From the article: 'Essentially, the program analyzes the messages a user makes through social networks, email, text messaging, microblogging, and other systems. Then, the program offers suggestions for responses, where the original messages are displayed, with information about others reactions to the same messages, and then the user can send the suggested messages in response to those users. The more the user utilizes the program and uses the responses, the more the bot can narrow down the types of responses you make.'"

Comments

Hey, wait a minute!

[PopeRatzo]

Please, google, leave me something to do besides shop.

Re:So where's the fuckin' source code?

[edibobb]

If they get to patent this garbage, we should disband the USPTO.

Mechanical Monk.

[Truth_Quark]

With this labour saving device to do your tedious social interaction for you, we're starting to really make some inroads into automating the most boring parts of our lives.

I wonder how long after the extinction of the species it will be before the social media traffic starts to slow down.

Re:So you won't need to waste time on FB

[cervesaebraciator]

(The following should be read with a [Don't Be] Evil villain accent in mind) And thus ad buyers have no reason to ask Facebook for data. After all, if Google's analytics include social media interactions with enough detail to predict responses, why bother with Facebook? To sell ads on Facebook? Hardly. Ever since Google started giving everyone's generic responses they all stopped getting on Facebook. At last, we shall have our revenge... er, market share!

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[rmdingler]

I understand the revulsion you feel for this hateful speech. But you could have said, as did Oscar Wilde, "I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself."

Who writes posts that short?

[Karmashock]

Most of my posts are either lengthy or very contextually relevant. This app is only going to serve the people that write "lolz" or "tldr" type responses... aka morons.