California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
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Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#2So much for Dr. Eliza.
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#3So much for Dr. Eliza. http://www.drdobbs.com/chatboteliza/199101503 https://www.cyberpsych.org/eliza/
I don't think this spells an end to Dr. Eliza. From what I understand, it only has to be made known that it is a bot. The fact that Dr. Eliza is very clearly a bot from the get go makes it completely legit. I do however wonder about Ashley Madison as it was made evident that a lot of the woman on the site were just bots. Yes the bots are just there to talk to the men but they are there from the company to entice the men to upgrade their membership and pay so it seems to me this would make them fall under this law.
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#4Political ads on tv require disclosure. I see no reason disclosure rules shouldn’t apply on internet campaigns of all forms.
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#5If I make a generated face that speaks my stuff with a generated voice, is it a bot?
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#6If I make a generated face that speaks my stuff with a generated voice, is it a bot?
Yes. Same as program you write to do "your stuff" is not you.
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#7So much for Dr. Eliza. http://www.drdobbs.com/chatboteliza/199101503 https://www.cyberpsych.org/eliza/
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
It's prohibited from trying to sell you something or influence your vote, but Eliza doesn't do either of those things...
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#8> Violators could face fines under state statutes related to unfair competition.
I doubt that anyone running bots, and who is technically competent, will be identifiable or findable. I mean, I could do it, and I'm just a random anonymous coward.
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#9That will be a fun one to interpret. So if I use autocorrect, am I a bot? What if the device makes next word suggestions and I use them? What if the device suggests the entire post, but I manually approve it? What if it suggests five separate posts and I approve them all at once?
Re: California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
#10That will be a fun one to interpret. So if I use autocorrect, am I a bot? What if the device makes next word suggestions and I use them? What if the device suggests the entire post, but I manually approve it? What if it suggests five separate posts and I approve them all at once?
I wouldn’t classify that as a bot as there’s still human interaction required.