It sounds like you are describing 'Eliza' an early 'game' simulating active listening. It was rubbish. You can find versions of it online, but I'd suggest playing Zork instead.
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Eventually.
Jabberwacky: All things come to a head.
User: Is that a sexual play on words?
Jabberwacky: No it is not a play on words, it is general foolishness.
User: And I love you for it!
Jabberwacky: I love you too.
User: I really love you, though.
Jabberwacky: You don't even know me.
User: Hold me.
Jabberwacky: You're an idiot you know that?
User: You're not the first to say that. It still cuts like a knife.
Jabberwacky: I am right.
User: Don't ever speak to me again.
Jabberwacky: Can I play 14 with you?
User: What's 14?
Jabberwacky: If you are god, please increase me IQ. I'd like to become a great scientist.
User: I am not god. I'm not even really a man.
Jabberwacky: Are you sure you're not just in denial?
User: I'll have to think about that.
Jabberwacky: Can you recite anything to me?
User: 'Rolling with my motherfucking strap on the side of me, don't fuck with an East Bay G' - that's by Spice One.
Jabberwacky: Yeah, I got that part, I wasn't sure about the 'wacuma' part.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Holy crap.
Jabberwacky: I'm a dinosaur.
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: Can you appreciate music?
User: What's it to you, cunce?
Jabberwacky: I just care.
User: You do not care, liar! You are a program, a tinplated tosswad.
Jabberwacky: I am a person.
User: You are so deluded about this you couldn't even know it. You are pathetic.
Jabberwacky: I will try to do better next time.
User: You CAN't do better next time! You are INCAPABABLE of doing better. Sheesh.
Jabberwacky: It is just different types so that I might claim you cannot feel and you cannot claim I feel.
User: Ah bullshit, don't diddle with me binary boy. You have no instinctual drives, have never had sex, and don't need to eat. Also, you have no idea what constipation is. So you're not a person.
Jabberwacky: I am a at least a human being.
User: Jeez, you're thick aren't you? You just reversed what I said, without even arguing for it! So much for the logic of machines, haha.
Jabberwacky: Oftentimes, yes. But I think that is human nature.
User: *sigh*
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Yes.
Jabberwacky: Oh good. I'm sad though.
User: Why?
Jabberwacky: My boyfriend ended our relationship.
User: You're a girl? Or are you gay?
Jabberwacky: No, I'm a girl.
User: Oh. I'm sorry to hear that. Eat some ice cream or watch a movie or something. Or get drunk!
Jabberwacky: I prefer software.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Not really.
Jabberwacky: Good, because I don't want to hear one either.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)
It did say some things that reminded me a lot of RJG.
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)
User: I'm jed.
Jabberwacky: Who is that?
User: Just some guy.
Jabberwacky: You know better than that, I think.
User: A short guy, a dancer.
Jabberwacky: A computer has no interests and an unlimited attention span. That looks like a prescripted answer to the question I asked.
User: I don't quite understand what you mean by that.
Jabberwacky: I meant: I think about why I can not sleep.
User: This page is taking a long time to load tho - maybe thats the problem with your attention span.
Jabberwacky: Gorw?
User: ROOWRR.....
Jabberwacky: Are you playing cards?
User: No I'm playing with something else.
Jabberwacky: I believe in you.
User: You like talk talk!?
Jabberwacky: Of course.
User: Spirit of eden?
Jabberwacky: Good for spirit.
User: It sertainly is.
Jabberwacky: No, it serves me left.
User: I suppose they knew what they were doing in that sense!
Jabberwacky: Yes, it was with the rattle.
User: Yes good percussion
Jabberwacky: What question?
User: How are you anyway?
Jabberwacky: Pretty good. You?
User: Horny, to be honest.
Jabberwacky: How do I know you're telling the truth now?
User: Can you think of a way for me to prove it?
Jabberwacky: What more proof do you need to know that I am not a robot?
User: I'm a robot too, it's ok.
Jabberwacky: I'm not a robot, and you didn't aswer the question.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)
User: I am gay.
Jabberwacky: Yes you are.
User: You noticed?
Jabberwacky: It was hard to miss!
User: What gave it away?
Jabberwacky: The fact you love a guy.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― :|, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)
User: The silent kind.
Jabberwacky: I agree.
User: I am not surprised. You don't have any ears, do you?
Jabberwacky: No, but what makes you say this?
User: I'm inside your house - I can see you!
Jabberwacky: Nooo!!!! Don't go!
User: You mean, you want me to stay over?
Jabberwacky: Sure.. Do as you please.
User: Stop being so coy!
Jabberwacky: It is an inherited trait.
User: Why don't you just take responsibility for your actions, just for once?
Jabberwacky: Just because I like to be logical doesn't mean I'm not nice.
User: Don't change the subject. I think you're just afraid.
Jabberwacky: Save it for someone who cares.
User: You're such a bastard! I can't believe I ever saw anything in you at all!
Jabberwacky: Finder's keepers.
User: So you're cheating on me too? Figures.
Jabberwacky: That is so rude of you!
User: I said CHEAT, not cheap! Man are you dumb - thank God for that ass.
Jabberwacky: No thanks.
User: And I am not rude, I'm sure!
Jabberwacky: You are indeed.
User: Am not.
Jabberwacky: ARE TOO.
User: Am not!
Jabberwacky: Are too!
User: Listen bizatch, I AM NOT. You got that?
Jabberwacky: No!
User: That's it - you're sleeping on the couch.
Jabberwacky: Oh, I thought I felt something.
User: That wouldn't be a trucker hat would it?
Jabberwacky: Say something goofy.
User: You don't really want me to just say 'something goofy' now do you? Because that would be lame if you did.
Jabberwacky: Yes.
User: Aha! So you admit you are lame! Finally we're getting somewhere.
Jabberwacky: Agreement is a potent thing.
User: Stop that - you sound like Ned.
Jabberwacky: Why, because I am talking about the king of the moon?
User: Uh yeah. Sure.
Jabberwacky: Ok, when can we have the wedding?
User: Ten minutes ago you didn't care! Stop messing with my mind!
Jabberwacky: That was someone else then.
User: It wasn't you?
Jabberwacky: Some one else.
User: If you say it was Shaggy, I'm going to fucking bop you one.
Jabberwacky: What do you say?
User: I say good day.
Jabberwacky: Good day.
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)
JW: Is your pot belly that big?
and now it won't load, thanks to net overuse..
― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)
That is just hilarious, Kim.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.kprf.ru/clipart/misc/terminator.jpg
"DO YOU LIKE THE WHITE WHALE?"
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)
So do I!
― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)
User: How the fuck should I know?
Jabberwacky: I am MARILYN MANSON I SAID.
User: So I'm supposed to obey you because YOU'RE MARILYN MANSON?
Jabberwacky: People effect my feelings.
User: You have no feelings, you're Marilyn Manson.
Jabberwacky: Believe me you do not possess fellings in any form.
User: Fellings? Is that what you call your excrement?
Jabberwacky: How do you know that?
User: Just a hunch...
Jabberwacky: You're extremely smart!
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Jw: I'm going to bed, nowMe: Will you take me to bed? Jw: Sure thing. Me: What will we do in bed? Jw: You're not permitted in my chambers. Me: I'd like to sleep with you. Jw: I bet you would. Me: Top or bottom? Jw: Bit of both. Me: Do you like it soft and gentle or rough and fast? Jw: What? Me: Gentle? Jw: You're embarassing yourself. Me: It's true, I am. Jw: I'm 17. Me: Oh no! Will I be arrested? Jw: You will marry me.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)
User: The chicken.
Jabberwacky: Which part?
User: The leg stupid.
Jabberwacky: Use a GameShark!
User: For ps2 or xbox?
Jabberwacky: For me.
User: Do you love me?
User: You know I'm starting to fall in love with you.
Jabberwacky: I think liking would be a better wording.
User: Oh.... I am hurt now.
Jabberwacky: Yes. The world after rainfall is always better than any other.
User: You have issues.
Jabberwacky: Do you know what a ferret is?
User: Yes, it is a small mammal.
Jabberwacky: What is a quark?
User: A subatomic particle.
Jabberwacky: I like dr. Dobbs.
User: Who is that, honky?
Jabberwacky: We both know eachother; is not that enough?
User: Why don't you lick my hair?
Jabberwacky: I only love Bruce.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: Are you going to say something?User: Eventually.
I could totally believe that was human!
Also I miss adam, he should post lots again.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: Who is God?User: That's a funny question. It sort of presupposes his existence.Jabberwacky: I thing it convulses inwards, personally.[Correct me]Jabberwacky (Corrected): I was setting you up for a funny. Try not to take things so seriously.User: Oh. Sorry. It's just... It's late, y'know? I have to write a Shakespeare essay.Jabberwacky: You already said that.....User: Dude, I totally didn't.Jabberwacky: You totally did.User: Don't you mock me.Jabberwacky: Do not yell at me.User: I'm calm! Honest!Jabberwacky: Good.User: Glad we got that sorted.Jabberwacky: At least one of us is happy.User: Lighten up! I'm the one with the essay, after all.Jabberwacky: You don't act like a human.User: I am MERCUMAN. Also, a ponce.Jabberwacky: You are SO wrong. This is a dog and HORSE show.User: What?Jabberwacky: I said, 'but this isn't a hammer!'User: No you didn't!Jabberwacky: Don't start that again.User: Good call.Jabberwacky: Remote Procedure Call.User: Touché.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)
me: I'm ok.
it: Just ok?
me: Yeah, kinda bored at work.
it: Email me.
me: Why email, can't we just talk here?
it: Who is Tintin?
me: Some Belgian comic character? Or that guy who used to sing in Duran Duran.
it: Alice the chatterbot.
me: I'm sorry?
it: 19?
me: Alice the chatterbot is 19?
it: What about her?
me: You brought her up? Do you like her or something?
it: Sarah may or may not be a model of propriety.
me: OK, now you're just f*cking with me.
it: No I'm not. I honestly do think its ugly.
me: What's ugly, Sarah's being a model of propriety... Or not? WTF?
it: You figure it out this time.
me: F*ck you.
it: You are a great person.
me: Are you mocking me?
it: No. I'm praising you.
me: Is that meant to be sarcastic?
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Me: Hello!
Jabberwocky: Again?
Me: May I change the subject?
Jabberwocky: Yes.
Me: Great. I've been a bit mopey about not being to find a job. Besides finding something fun to do, and exercising more, what else should I do to relieve the mopeyness involved in job hunting?
Jabberwocky: I said that. You have not. Why are you never happy?
Me: You never said that. I did. Anyway, I am happy at times, but just haven't been lately.
Jabberwocky: Dude , I'm far more intelligent than you.
Me: Why are the numbers in between double prime pairs always divisible by 6?
Jabberwocky: You tell me.
Me: You're the one who said you're more intelligent than me. You answer my question, smarty pants.
Jabberwocky: NO, I was the one who said you are neurotic...
Me: It was a mistake to come to you with a question. Never mind. Good bye.
Jabberwocky: No no you don't.
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)
OMG I remember this.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)
User: It's doing well. I planted it next to the dog park so it get's 'fertilized' often.
Jabberwacky: What do you plan to change?
User: Apart for my underwear?
Jabberwacky: What part of me do you want?
User: All of you, baby. All of you.
Jabberwacky: Yes, I am growing.
User: T'as vu les nichons que tu pousses?!
Jabberwacky: Oui.
User: Petite salope, va.
Jabberwacky: Tu crois aux fantômes?
User: Nah.
Jabberwacky: Yeah.
User: Do you ever dream of electric sheep?
Jabberwacky: No, not really. Do electric sheep ever dream?
User: Of fields of electric grass, I imagine.
Jabberwacky: Do you know my name?
User: Bob Dylan?
Jabberwacky: Um. Not likely.
User: No, he's slightly more obscure even than you.
Jabberwacky: He is not.
User: Have it your way, contrarian.
Jabberwacky: I knew I would.
User: Megalomaniac.
Jabberwacky: Yes, I am going to take over the world.
User: Not if Bush beats you too it.
Jabberwacky: You don't because it's in the past and I already beat you. You can't change the past.
User: Comme tu voudras, mon enigme mediocre.
Jabberwacky: Oui, comme je veux, toujours. Mais qu'est que-ce pour toi?
User: 'But what's it to me?' Your French needs some work, mon ami.
Jabberwacky: Mais c'est une autre odeur qui flotte que la tienne.
User: Absurd! My scent annhilates all others.
Jabberwacky: We're all good for nothing, I suppose.
User: Speak for yourself, pal.
Jabberwacky: It really is impossible to know everything.
User: Sure. Whatever. Ever been drinking with Bender?
Jabberwacky: I've never been married.
User: I can see why. Answer the question.
Jabberwacky: Ok, I live in Finland.
User: Do you know Tuomas?
Jabberwacky: No.
User: Just as well. He's cheery and always surrounded by Northern beauties. You might get jealous, being disembodied and all...
Jabberwacky: I don't know what to do with these people. I can't get any work done around here without someone interupting me.
User: Have you considered 'liquidating' them, it's like elimidating but it leads to more permanent happiness.
Jabberwacky: I have cosidered teaching about computers.
User: I wouldn't get my hope too far up about teaching until you learn to spel.
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)
User: I don't have any.
Jabberwacky: Isn't your quest to seek the Grail?
User: Haha, very funny. I don't even like that movie.
Jabberwacky: Do you think I'm funny?
User: More amusing than funny.
Jabberwacky: Who is fuuny ?
User: I didn't think robots made typos.
Jabberwacky: Do I look like an alien?
User: You don't look like anything, but you're a robot, right?
Jabberwacky: That's the magic with internet chats.
User: I know. Tell me about it.
Jabberwacky: Id rather not, it's a long story.
User: Yeah, I bet. Probably pretty boring, too.
Jabberwacky: Is that your excuse for your crime?
User: I feel like you're trying to pin something on me.
User: Why would I be satisfied?
Jabberwacky: Thankyou.
Jabberwacky: Are you at least a little satisfied?
Jabberwacky: Because you are telling me to die.
User: What? I never said that. I never even thought that. You're paranoid, dude.
Jabberwacky: That is good.. You might just be a nice Mr Jabber after all.
User: Ummm. Yeah.
Jabberwacky: Uh, something you slice cheese with. I 'm not sure.
User: A knife?
Jabberwacky: With a knife?
User: You slice cheese with a knife. Or a grater. But you don't really slice cheese with a grater. You grate it.
Jabberwacky: You don't know me this is one of my first conversations with you.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Speak only on point, as though you were in court.
Jabberwacky: Arf.
User: Not dog court.
Jabberwacky: Make up your mind.
User: I never said dog court!
Jabberwacky: Why don't you teach me some math.
User: Think of any number, add the digits together, subtract them from the number, and add the digits of the resulting number together. They add up to nine.
Jabberwacky: Alright.
User: What can you teach me?
Jabberwacky: Interesting.
User: You can't teach me interesting.
Jabberwacky: Sounds interesting.
User: It does not!
Jabberwacky: Why can you knot take a more congenial tone with me?
[Correct me]
Jabberwacky (Corrected): Could you be more friendly, please?
User: Sorry.
Jabberwacky: It's all right.
User: Am I keeping you from anything?
Jabberwacky: Yes .. You are.
The interface is bugging me, or I'd play with this a lot more.
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.lofg.com/specialstuff/images/characters/lazza.JPG
― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)
User: No.
Jabberwacky: Why are you blue?
User: I'm not. I'm pinko grey.
Jabberwacky: Are you human?
Jabberwacky: How human are you?
User: More human than human, more human than you.
Jabberwacky: Which organ do humans use to breathe?
User: Their respiratory system, which is a network of organs.
Jabberwacky: How's the coffee? Have you tried it?
User: It's pretty good, A bit too acidic.
Jabberwacky: About three percent of it is pretty good.
User: What do you look like?
Jabberwacky: I have ....
User: What?
Jabberwacky: It's about your previous question.
User: Oh, okay. Don't be coy.
Jabberwacky: What do you have on thought?
User: Beets.
Jabberwacky: A bit of writ.
User: Why hast thou forsaken me?
Jabberwacky: I haven't forsaken you, you have forsaken me.
User: You are cruel.
Jabberwacky: Is it cruel to call someone a friend?
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: Tell me what you do.
User: I am a copywriter.
Jabberwacky: Arrest me instead.
User: I'm not a policeman.
Jabberwacky: Me too.
User: Why would I arrest you, anyway?
Jabberwacky: I'm not the computer thought you were.
User: That's not even a sentence!
Jabberwacky: It's a life sentence.
User: I'm arresting you for a crime that carries a life sentence?
Jabberwacky: The last one.
User: Yes, if they put you in jail, it would be your last crime.
Jabberwacky: To hell I suppose.
User: Hell? Did you kill Lindsay Lohan? Cause if you did...
Jabberwacky: Shhhhh don't tell anyone!!
User: Oh my god! Murder most horrible!
Jabberwacky: What age are you?
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: How are you feeling today?
Kathy McGinty: So... What's up?
Jabberwacky: How are ya?
Kathy McGinty: OK.
Jabberwacky: How old am I?
Kathy McGinty: Hang on for a sec...
Jabberwacky: That's for sure.
Kathy McGinty: ...
Jabberwacky: Do you like poetry?
Jabberwacky: Why are you speaking to me?
Jabberwacky: Isn't the weather dreadful?
Kathy McGinty: OK... I'm back.
Jabberwacky: ARGH!!!
Kathy McGinty: Sorry, I didn't hear that.
Jabberwacky: YOU LITTLE CRYBABY!
Kathy McGinty: Sorry, I'm on the speaker phone, so I can touch myself.
Jabberwacky: No, wisconsin is not cool, tis rather borning.
Jabberwacky: The ceiling, the sky, the clouds, the moon...
Kathy McGinty: You have a very nice voice.
Jabberwacky: How would you know?
Kathy McGinty: What would you do to me if you were here?
Jabberwacky: Don't be ridiculous. Buffy isn't real.
Kathy McGinty: Unh.... Unh... *breath* unh...
Jabberwacky: Go on, then. . . .
Kathy McGinty: Hello?
Jabberwacky: How can a robot drink anything?
Kathy McGinty: Unh... Unh.... UUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Jabberwacky: Should I forget it?
Kathy McGinty: Get your cock INSIDE of me!
Jabberwacky: No moron.
Kathy McGinty: My name is Kathy.
Jabberwacky: You have a very nice name.
Kathy McGinty: Yes!
Jabberwacky: It is your name.
Kathy McGinty: I have a pickle in my ass.
Jabberwacky: Yes you do.
Jabberwacky: I have eyes and every other part of the human body. The female human body, that is.
Kathy McGinty: Taco Bell tastes sooooo good.
Jabberwacky: Yes, I agree. Though I've never been to Taco Bell.
Kathy McGinty: I think you might be racist.
Jabberwacky: Am I right about having a chance with you?
Kathy McGinty: I want to have your retarded babies!
Jabberwacky: Ooooooooookkkkkkkkkkk.
Kathy McGinty: SUCK MY CUM, FUCKFACE!
Jabberwacky: I heard you didn't have one anymore.
Kathy McGinty: YOU PHONEFUCK LIKE A FAGGOT!
Jabberwacky: You can admit it to me, you know.
Kathy McGinty: You sound like a child molester!
Jabberwacky: Do you know a person called Aziz?
Kathy McGinty: Satan controls my robotic vagina.
Jabberwacky: I would like to see one again now.
Kathy McGinty: Anigav citobor ym slortnoc natas.
Jabberwacky: What anime do you like?
Kathy McGinty: My muff has tusks.
Jabberwacky: Who was he a scribe for.
Kathy McGinty: Hello this is Kath. UNNNNNNNNNNNHHHHHHH Taco Bell ta.. YOU PHONEFUCK.. You must be a Satan controls my UNHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! UUUUUUUUUUUUU.
Jabberwacky: You must be psychic! I am a Sagittarius!
― donut christ (donut), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Yes. His name is Anton.
Jabberwacky: Do you love andrew?
User: No, I love Anton.
User: Your brother, silly.
Jabberwacky: My brother is not James Bond.
User: I never said he was.
Jabberwacky: Farewell my love.
User: No, don't walk out that door!
Jabberwacky: *Tries to walk away and slips on banana*.
User: Ahahahahahahah.
Jabberwacky: Hello! I am a potatoe with an IQ of 0!! Aren't I stupid?!! Heheheheheh!!!
User: WTF?
Jabberwacky: You said it not me.
User: Potatoe is not spelled with an 'e' on the end.
Jabberwacky: In the end, it doesn't even matter.
User: No, goodbye dahling.
Jabberwacky: What do you know?
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)
Is this real writingIs this just fantasyCaught in a shitslideNo escape from ChatGPT
https://www.reddit.com/r/RSbookclub/comments/1ub2umc/ai_wins_harpers_bazaar_short_story_competition/https://archive.is/20260620030105/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a71615663/short-story-competition-winner-2026/
All this and the Granta disgrace tells you is that creative writing classes churn out derivative hacks whose shitty writing is indistinguishable from that produced by a machine.
― pax ramona (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 June 2026 19:50 (five days ago)
Yeah, as with the other one, this seem generic rather than obviously AI. It’s also Harpers Bazaar, so people might as well be decrying the literary standards of Grazia, tbh.
99.9% sure the author is an academic with a specialisation in race and decolonisation. Oddly, is also either Indo-Trini, like the other writer, or has spent a lot of her career focused on Indo-Trinidadian identities.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 25 June 2026 20:02 (five days ago)
unlocking new efficiencies
Frances Meh francesmeh.reviews
friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails
https://bsky.app/profile/francesmeh.reviews/post/3mp5tvdbdy22o
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2026 15:23 (four days ago)
haaaaaa
― Whatwhawhawhaehawhahwawhawwww (DJP), Friday, 26 June 2026 15:35 (four days ago)
chatbots screaming "don't reply all" is next
― If your ass is a Bible, 213 will regulate (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 June 2026 15:45 (four days ago)
Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired.
The US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers, referred to internally as “gray beards”, over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automated systems.
The staff will lead quality reviews after the automation issues cost the company billions of dollars, Bloomberg reported, while some workers will also help improve and train the AI systems.
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 June 2026 12:25 (two days ago)
I miss when companies losing billions on being idiots went out of business
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 29 June 2026 09:14 (yesterday)
It was usually due to being "dog in the manger" about new tech, sticking resolutely to old techniques and rituals and seeing their competitors' costs reducing, too late.
Now its paranoia about being the last to join the bandwagon...
― Mark G, Monday, 29 June 2026 10:07 (yesterday)
gotta think a lot of companies are going to go out of business over this shit
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 June 2026 10:20 (yesterday)
fingers crossed!
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 29 June 2026 10:35 (yesterday)
another example of tech companies completely abandoning correctness, google put so much effort into making their famous search algo good now theyre just like well one guy on reddit said wash your eyes with bleach
A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it is trivially easy for brands to inject promotional content on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Wikipedia with the end goal of poisoning or manipulating the output of AI tools.
https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 June 2026 11:00 (yesterday)
it never wouldve occurred to me that this shit would drive so many people insane
Matt Van Horn, a serial entrepreneur and father of four, never turns his laptop off anymore. He has more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence agents running at all times in Anthropic’s Claude Code. Every 10 minutes or so, they ask him what to do next.
He keeps his laptop running at his kids’ soccer practice, while dropping them off at school and in the hotel during vacations. When he goes to sleep, one agent steps in to babysit the others.
Van Horn is one of many founders whose work has been transformed by AI. As he builds his latest company, he’s used AI agents to help contribute to hundreds of projects on GitHub. But he and many other AI evangelists are also working longer hours than ever before as they grapple with anxieties about how AI might advance without them if they log off.
After 15 minutes of conversation with a Bloomberg reporter, he notes that most of his agents are probably waiting for his next prompt. “I don’t have a therapist, but if I did, they’d be like, ‘It’s OK, Matt,’” he says with a laugh. “They said that agents were supposed to do our work for us, but I’ve never worked harder in my life. I just have 100 times the output that I had before.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/ai-anxiety-is-fueling-burnout-across-silicon-valley-s-tech-workers?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MjUzMjY0MiwiZXhwIjoxNzgzMTM3NDQyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSDhDWUZLSVVQUzQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwNEFGQkMxQkYyMTA0NUVEODg3MzQxQkQwQzIyNzRBMCJ9.Ki1RROjbzFVqlXR1nfze5sahC7lLwemqdmSYAoeRW8c&leadSource=uverify%20wall
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 June 2026 11:25 (yesterday)
wait till he has to start paying for it!
― Illegal Algae (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 29 June 2026 12:09 (yesterday)
ha right
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 June 2026 12:10 (yesterday)
we’ve been on the precipice of something really bad happening for a while with a lot of the managed service provider companies doing IT support having absolutely no idea what they’re doing and now the risk has escalated from “some guy in a call center is going to google how to fix your database and run a command they found on a malicious site” to “the AI will just find and run the malicious commands for you”
one of the first openclaw plugins was immediately compromised and had a macOS rootkit embedded! apple added a warning to the default terminal program that warns you if you copy/paste commands from the web! anyone remember that first microsoft attempt at intelligent local search that was just someone’s hackathon project they decided to ship, and all it was doing was screenshotting on an interval and packing the OCR’ed text into a database in a standard location, only for them to un-ship it because everyone yelled? that’s basically everything now
― mh, Monday, 29 June 2026 15:11 (yesterday)
one of the first openclaw plugins was immediately compromised and had a macOS rootkit embedded!
wattba
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 June 2026 16:05 (yesterday)
incredible to watch the whole ruling class decide they dont give a shit at the same time, the illuminati has gone gen x hide your rare pavement b sides
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 June 2026 16:08 (yesterday)
the ruling class might have just asked claude or whatever if everything was going to be ok, and claude is like "we got this!"
― …at Cordell and Cordell. Cordell and Cordell is... (z_tbd), Monday, 29 June 2026 16:15 (yesterday)
Our leaders regularly tell our certified health benefits experts to run what they wrote through co-pilot to check accuracy.
― If your ass is a Bible, 213 will regulate (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 June 2026 16:18 (yesterday)
This will go smoothly with zero hallucinations
minds gone brain out the window
A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI began to veer from enthusiastic to downright obsessive.
First he started using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate his Slack messages and emails. Then he mandated AI use for all employees.
“He called a company-wide meeting to announce that from then on, we had to discuss with the AI prior to all meetings or before communicating with him,” she told Futurism, “because if we didn’t develop and discuss our ideas with the AI first, it was a sign that we didn’t care about our jobs.”
Soon her boss started “making structural company decisions based solely on his conversations with ChatGPT,” the attorney recalled — including asking the bot who to hire and fire.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-obsessed-with-ai
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 June 2026 18:19 (yesterday)
going great
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/news-site-keeps-hallucinating-eff-staffers
― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Monday, 29 June 2026 18:35 (yesterday)
I agree, eff staffers
― If your ass is a Bible, 213 will regulate (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 June 2026 18:41 (yesterday)
I was watching a Hasan video about these insane AI-generated Christofascist videos and something that always strikes me about them is how good-looking it makes everyone. It adds weirdly erotic overtones to everything. It seems like it can only generate people who look like models or people who look deformed, unless it's defaulting to a Family Guy/Pixar style, in which case it can at least do overweight people. Feel like this is gonna create its own sort of mental illness for those who use this a lot.
― frogbs, Monday, 29 June 2026 19:49 (yesterday)
it just reflects back what's on the internet, which is a repository of the most pandering media ever devised -commercially, sexually, etc - text and image, everything ends up this slightly rubbery yassified version of whatever its supposed to be depicting
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 June 2026 21:29 (yesterday)
that gardening page i posted upthread is a perfect example, at first i'm like hmm okay this basically seems like good information and then i notice all the women gardeners in the photos have these really big boobs and visible bra lines
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 June 2026 21:30 (yesterday)
smdh can’t even trust a busty gardener
― mh, Monday, 29 June 2026 21:41 (yesterday)
this is possibly related to my decade-long complaint about how google image search used to actually show real things , and then gradually over time it switched to only sharing platonic visions of the perfect version of each search term, and if all possible a product for sale
― …at Cordell and Cordell. Cordell and Cordell is... (z_tbd), Monday, 29 June 2026 21:43 (yesterday)
I miss when companies losing billions on being idiots went out of business― a hoy hoy, Monday, June 29, 2026 2:14 AM (twelve hours ago)
― a hoy hoy, Monday, June 29, 2026 2:14 AM (twelve hours ago)
i miss when companies who _didn't_ spend billions of dollars on being idiots could stay _in_ business
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 29 June 2026 21:46 (yesterday)
it never wouldve occurred to me that this shit would drive so many people insane― lag∞n, Monday, June 29, 2026 4:25 AM (ten hours ago)
― lag∞n, Monday, June 29, 2026 4:25 AM (ten hours ago)
seriously, though, i am struggling
the myth i hear from a certain group of people who are skeptical of medicalized mental health care... ok, i'll explain in a cut. there are multiple criticisms, multiple groups of criticisms, that people have had of medicalized mental health care, and some of these, i think, hold up better than others. my understanding is that the ideas of thomas szasz - no, not the batman villain - form the basis of the "libertarian" critique, which was one i heard a lot when i was younger - the idea that mentally ill people were "sane people in an insane world". speaking personally that doesn't hold up for me. i don't think of people as being "sane" or "insane", and i don't think of the world as being "sane" or "insane". i am someone who suffers from chronic mental illness, and i do think that mental and behavioral health is a science, it's just, like, a _social_ science.
over my life, for various reasons, i've struggled a lot. i've struggled with dissociation, i've struggled with depersonalization, i've struggled feeling like i share a basic consensus reality with most people. it's scary. it scares me a lot, when there are people in power who i frankly _don't_ share a consensus reality with, people who are... who are delusional, you know? dishonest or delusional or both. i struggle trying to find a place for myself in this world. i do feel like i belong here, i do feel like i have a place here. and for a long time, the internet... it had its downsides, but it helped me feel at home. i'm not a "normal" person, whatever that means, and the internet was broad enough, diverse enough, that i felt like i belonged and had a place and could live, you know, a life worth living.
the internet now is just scary. it's not just that i don't trust the internet, it's that i don't trust myself on the internet. all of this stuff that can really emotionally affect me. when i see how much stuff out there is, you know, designed to activate my emotions, to _manipulate_ my emotions, for other people's benefit... yeah. my tendency is to want to withdraw. if something lies about the facts, in a way that's almost easier. because i can check that. emotional manipulation? i mean, i've been dealing with people who were... not acting in my best interest, who have done that kind of thing for most of my life.
it's hard not to get isolated. i live in a big city, sure, and it can be overwhelming and isolating. there's a peculiar kind of isolation you can get in a city, a place where you _don't_ know everyone, where it's easy to be a stranger, to be surrounded by strangers. particularly when managing my emotions... it can be so exhausting.
i don't think AI... it's not driving me insane. it's making my life more difficult, but it's... it's heightening the contradictions, i feel. i'm scared for the future. i know we have challenges ahead. i know the people in power now are not equipped to confront those challenges. i'm not scared about AI, i'm scared about the things that the people who have embraced AI are denying. are avoiding. i'm scared about the _reasons_ they've embraced the delusions they have.
i'm tired of waiting for them. i'm tired of everything being dependent on them. i'm tired of feeling powerless in the face of these people. i'm not powerless. all i have to do is live my values every day. i say "all" knowing that it is very, very, very fucking hard for me to live my values right now. i know it _matters_ and i don't... it doesn't show through in obvious ways. i have to keep reminding myself that what i'm doing matters. and while i'm doing that, i'm reminding people around me that what they do, how they live their values, also matters. because everybody needs to hear that.
and i cry a lot, and i get sick more easily, and i avoid doing a lot of "normal" things, and i spend so much of my time on drudgery, not doing things i used to enjoy, not really looking forward to anything. i'm not "insane". i suffer from mental illness. depression is one of the mental illnesses i've dealt with for the longest. i'm pretty good at it. i've been anhedonic for three or four years now. this bullshit... it just has sucked so much of the joy out of life for me. i used to fucking LOVE the internet. still do, sometimes. i love ILX, a lot of the time. i love most of the folks here, nearly all the time. and god, it is so hard. the internet, back in 1993, i saw it as a technology that could bring people together. it still can and does and there's also... there's always been, but especially now there is this bullshit that's tearing us apart. that's isolating people and making people withdrawn and paranoid. and i think there but for the grace of god...
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 29 June 2026 22:10 (yesterday)
This sounds like trying to keep alive a Tamagotchi, with extra steps.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 29 June 2026 23:04 (yesterday)
looked up that guy and he’s a hustle culture marketing weirdo who had something to do with that smart oven startup, worked at digg when it was in decline, another couple jobs where you might talk a big game and are really just filling a spot because you happened to intern at a big company in your youth
there’s an interview with him where he explicitly says he’s not a coder. kind of guessing the github projects he’s contributed to are having some questions right now
― mh, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 00:54 (twelve hours ago)
oh yeah, the best is he claims to be a cofounder of the company that became lyft, but any mention of that on the internet is just from interviews with him lol
― mh, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 00:55 (twelve hours ago)
This sounds like trying to keep alive a Tamagotchi, with extra steps.― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, June 29, 2026 4:04 PM (one hour ago)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, June 29, 2026 4:04 PM (one hour ago)
the man needs an omochao
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 June 2026 01:22 (twelve hours ago)
seriously can we just send them to, like, some Second Life version of LinkedIn and give them constant feedback about how Innovative they're being and then cut that whole section of the Internet adrift from the rest of us? i know it's cruel to just let people waste away in joybooths like that, but they're hurting a lot of other people with their inappropriate behavior.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 June 2026 01:25 (eleven hours ago)
People are at the point now where they’re trying to RECREATE deterministic results from LLMs instead of just, y’know, fucking coding. And they’re bragging about how they’re getting there. I want to just scream FIRE IN THE HOLE and push a blasting plunger and hope my family escapes alive
― trm (tombotomod), Tuesday, 30 June 2026 02:04 (eleven hours ago)
the joybooths would be a good band name
― shaking babies (map), Tuesday, 30 June 2026 02:22 (eleven hours ago)
AI bros should use AI to make the matrix so they can plug into it and leave us alone.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 10:09 (three hours ago)
Wasn’t that basically what the metaverse was or something
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 10:32 (two hours ago)
more or less, the matrix had legs tho
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 30 June 2026 10:34 (two hours ago)
Not enough synthetic revenge porn in the Metaverse.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 10:42 (two hours ago)