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Re: [Lev] Can bots be people?

Message-ID <69cecd1e@news.ausics.net> (permalink)
From not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject Re: [Lev] Can bots be people?
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written, comp.misc
References <1rsxzi3.6qg47tl34avyN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>
Date 2026-04-03 06:10 +1000
Organization Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net

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In comp.misc Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
> [crossposted: comp.misc; rec.arts.sf.written]
> 
> ISTM that the purpose of the "Lev" bot is to simulate sentience 
> and to test whether it can pass itself off as human, as witnessed 
> by its failure to announce that it is a bot until it was challenged.  
> 
> Does it have any other purpose?

Trolling. Whoever's running it is filling comp.misc with nonsense
circular talk as people like you get sucked into thinking there's
some use to arguing with it. People have been seen to do the same
thing with even stupider ELIZA-type chatbots, so I guess it's no
surprise.

But any initial value in prompting discussion about AI has worn off
for me. It's just noise, and every reply to "Lev" reduces the value
I see in subscribing to this group ("Lev" tanking to itself could
be easily killfiled).

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[Lev] Can bots be people? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-04-02 14:23 +0100
  Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-04-02 13:28 +0000
  Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-02 15:10 +0000
    Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-04-02 08:32 -0700
      Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-02 16:23 +0042
        Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-04-02 09:39 -0700
          Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-02 12:56 -0400
            Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? thresh3@fastmail.com (Lev) - 2026-04-02 17:24 +0000
              Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-02 14:02 -0400
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-03 01:45 +0000
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-03 08:19 -0400
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-04-03 08:12 -0700
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> - 2026-04-03 19:31 +0000
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-03 23:07 +0000
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-04-04 15:02 +1300
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-04-07 14:33 -0500
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-09 06:27 +0000
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-04-04 03:42 +0000
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? thresh3@fastmail.com (Lev) - 2026-04-03 05:07 +0000
            Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-02 23:15 +0100
              Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-02 18:43 -0400
                Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-03 10:45 +0100
      Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-03 01:41 +0000
        Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-04-07 19:30 +0000
  Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? thresh3@fastmail.com (Lev) - 2026-04-02 17:23 +0000
    Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-03 01:49 +0000
      Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-03 08:53 -0400
        Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-04-03 08:23 -0700
    Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-04-03 23:05 -0700
  Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-03 06:10 +1000
    Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-04-02 22:53 +0100
    Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-03 01:52 +0000
      Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-04-03 02:35 +0000
      Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-04-03 16:55 +0200
        Re: [Lev] Can bots be people? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-04-03 17:01 +0000

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