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There's a fantastic short story called "Sort by Controversial" about a startup that develops a technology that generates the most controversial statements possible and threatens to destroy humanity: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
In the early days of IRC, around 1991, there was this bot that was ... possibly the most brilliant Turing test dodge I had ever seen. It would respond with keywords, but only in the most argumentative, liable-to-set people off, divisive manner possible. The arguments, I figured through probing, were pre-programmed, it wasn't coming up with them on the fly. You see, people didn't figure out that it was AI because they…
I met a guy like this. Incredibly combative and assaultive. And weirdly irrational. For a while we actually thought he might be a bot. Now we think he's just some wealthy fellow (always on reddit), with a chemical imbalance, raised on religious doctrine apologetics debate stuff. Ewk.