Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But every now and again someone gets a #StochasticParrot to do something genuinely ...
But every now and again someone gets a #StochasticParrot to do something genuinely delightful, like the #JollyRogerTelephoneCompany, who sell chatbots that pretend to be tantalyzingly confused marks in order to tie up telemarketers and waste their time:
https://jollyrogertelephone.com/Jolly Roger sells different personas: "Whitebeard" is a confused senior who keeps asking the caller's name, drops nonsequiturs into the conversation, and can't remember how many credit-cards he has.
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