Enhanced virtual self
Matthieu Cherubini,
Geneva University of Art, Design,
Jun 30, 2011
Marketers already use bots and agents on social networks extensively. It is fair to assume that the clear majority of Twitter traffic is generated automatically (if you're only following friends you might not notice this but if you do any sort of search the pollution becomes readily apparent). How else do you think people like Andy Carvin scale? Now the average user can fight back with a bot of his or her own. But I have to ask: is it cheating if students use a bots to complete their social network homework? From the site:
"rep.licants.org is a web service allowing users to install an artificial intelligence (bot) on their Facebook and/or Twitter account. From keywords, content analysis and activity analysis, the bot attempts to simulate the activity of the user, to improve it by feeding his account and to create new contacts with other users. The bot [is] not born with a fictitious identity, but will be added to the real identity of the user to modify it at his convenience. Thus, this bot can be seen as a virtual prothesis added to an user's account."
"rep.licants.org is a web service allowing users to install an artificial intelligence (bot) on their Facebook and/or Twitter account. From keywords, content analysis and activity analysis, the bot attempts to simulate the activity of the user, to improve it by feeding his account and to create new contacts with other users. The bot [is] not born with a fictitious identity, but will be added to the real identity of the user to modify it at his convenience. Thus, this bot can be seen as a virtual prothesis added to an user's account."
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