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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.'"
Given all the complete nonsense posted to social media websites, it's probably better to let the servers talk to each other.
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comment.append(" LOL, epic fail
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Please, google, leave me something to do besides shop.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Possible response:
Does it also detect Slashdot dupes?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/20/161244/google-patents-fooling-friends-with-snooping-chatbots
I said. Does it also detect Slashdot dupes?
Sounds great!
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Honestly honey, I didn't mean to say that. It was google!
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If they get to patent this garbage, we should disband the USPTO.
Eventually there will be more "bots" making posts than humans. But most people act "with the crowd". If one organisation controls most of the bots then they will hold enormous sway over "public opinion". After all, it is the perception of public opinion that matters - not the actual public opinion. Also, it a bit sad that people want to be on social media (because they cannot be bothered to meet up in real life) and now they want the computer to think up responses for them (because they can't be bothered to think them up for themselves).
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.
(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!
They finally found a way to bolster the Google+ user base. They'll just use it for us!
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."
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It's trolling and flamebait, this time in a racist flavour. We have a mods for both flamebait and trolling, and as long as those posts are modded as such, and we don't feed the trolls and fires, that ought to be enough.
This sounds almost like the premise of the sci-fi novel Avogadro Corporation: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears. Avogadro Corporation was ironically modeled after Google, and in the story they develop a system using recommendation algorithms to automatically suggest improvements to one's emails so that they produce favorable responses from recipients. What happens is that one of the programmers modifies the system to give it an overarching goal, gives it the privileges to write and send it's own emails as any Avogadro Mail user (think any Gmail user), and it begins to socially engineer people, allowing it to escape into the wild, take over whole governments, etc.
This Google project sounds eerily familiar. Better watch out, this could spell the end of us all.
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.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
LOL. Me too!
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