Re: Moral Dilemma
"Auric__" <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:59:36 -0000 (UTC)
| Newsgroups | news.groups,alt.cyberpunk,alt.2600.hackers |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Angler wrote: > A long time ago some really nasty trolls were verbally abusing me in the > newsgroups. I figured right quick that any response would only lead to > more abuse so I stopped posting to the groups and I went my merry way. > > But before I left I set up a GPT-style bot to autopost to the groups > each time they reply to my bot posts. After nearly two years later I > opened the groups in a news reader to discover that the same trolls had > been responding to the bot posts all that time. They were still going at > it with their abuse of the bot. The retards are oblivious. > > I have a moral dilemma. I feel a bit guilty, knowing that my bot has > wasted what probably amounts to dozens of hours of their pathetic lives > reading and responding to my bot posts. > > Should I pull the plug on the bot? > > Or should I set the bot to use more aggressive phrases and get popcorn? Do you really need to ask? -- Bob-omb is the cutest little suicide bomber this side of Tehran.