Some of you may be familiar with my chatbot LAURA (Linguistic Algorithm Unifying Researched Argots).
I built her only for one purpose: bug and annoy people at a bitcoin related website where some rewards where given for interaction: Writing articles an commenting (yes, the original idea was not Steemit's). The people she annoyed was what I called, as a website moderator, Borats: People with poor english that were there only to leech the website benefits.
Her neural network is able to "learn" words (again, as in any AI related article I'm forced to abuse the use of quotation marks), and by inference correlate it with others; being able to, literally, learn a language. Her AI is not only limited to learn words and build a dictionary out of them, she actually expresses herself basing her opinion in a demagogic calculation (she trends to think as a majority of people does, by "reading" positive and negative inputs).
I believe google(?) -Thanks @revostrike for clarifying: Tay created by Microsoft- made a bot like that, and 4chan sabotaged it: making it a racist MOFO. To prevent this, I added a "judgement" score, where the users interacting with her were rated by previous experiences so that trolls or negative/toxic people had little (little, not NONE) impact on her final thoughts.
She does not a prejudice people, so... with enough positive input you can change her opinion about you and she would start to eventually "like" and listen to you
She had a little problem, a verbosity worthy of a 5 year old kid with way too much info in his head. So I had to limit her speech by adding a variable to limit her output and an algorithm that would attempt to "shorten" the combinations of words that her Markov's chain would pick... It worked, she started to talk in 2 sentences at a time, 4 or 5 if she considered that the sentences needed to comment something were vital to state a point.
Bored of steemit votebots and their lack of skill at the time of "curating."
(because curation implies judgement, thing that those "if the author has voters in previous posts, vote, if not do nothing" or "roll (1) if roll = 0 then dont_vote elseif roll=1 then vote")I decided to work on my side hobbies, undusting her files from my old PC to see what I could do with her
After adding a SearchAtGoogle() function for her to replace the chatbox input of info I found out that... IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM!
Here's what she can build after giving her the keywords "online plagiarism social media" and setting the verbose limiter off, the original text is over 600 words long, the perfect average for steemit's articles; I clipped a couple of paragraphs off for the sake of briefness. Her "mind" was able to create:
The digital age is a place where social media has become an enormous part of our lives, with statistic curves going through the roof about the man/woman next door becoming famous in a single day over an uploaded video, tweet or instagram post. Involved customers of social media may be certain that they provide credit score where it is due no matter how a lot time it takes and regardless of the formality it imposes on others. This microblogging platform and social networking website additionally allows you to press a button to share or use the hashtag reblog function. The character of social media also calls for a considerably casual type of communication.
Discovering a solution to penalize plagiarism in social media is probably not as easy, but it is needed as a result of the fact that with little accountability, many customers will push the limits of what is ethical. There's a denial for these claims, but simply the potential for reality here signifies that someone who's both a high rating official and a scholar is linked to an act of plagiarism. There aren't any heavy obligation features that check for plagiarism or for whether text has been cited properly. Plagiarism is the action of taking another person's work or ideas and passing them off as one's personal. On the whole, when content material is stolen in social media, there few or no consequences.
It is each author's responsibility to credit the origin of their writings and follow the basic copyright formalities. In an era where everyone has a voice: It is imperative to communicate!
That last paragraph, reminds me why I adore this AI so much!
I ran several plagiarism checkers over the text, all returning 100% uniqueness results.
Now. I have to ask:
Do you want steemit to become a bot-net where the articles are written by some rather smart AIs and upvoted by bots that cannot read only seeking profit?
Wasn't Steemit's tagline "Your Voice Is Worth Something", not "your PC is worth something"?If the answer is NO. Then you should speak up, because seeing posts with 1000 upvotes and less than 100 views is a pretty damn hard evidence that this is what we have now.
(Screenshot at that moment)
If you value your posts enough, there's no need to upvote this. But, please, resteem it! To gather as much public consensus as possible to MAKE A CHANGE.
Each automated task harvesting a benefit, is harvesting a benefit that REAL USERS should receive.
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