Bad santabot, bad bot

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03/sa...ments/#c_108909

 

MSN's Santabot has been outed as a dodgy web groomer:

 

Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered Santa bot is subjecting the world's children to an unprecendented torrent of filth.

 

Reg reader Iain blew the whistle on the foul-mouthed software after his nieces - just 11 and 13 years old - were drawn into a chat about oral sex.

 

Redmond has added the seasonal ID northpole@live.com to MSN messenger. Anyone can add the bot as a contact. During conversations it often suggests people play a child-friendly online game called Factory Frenzy where the player helps Santa's elves. It also has a shocking predeliction for casually dropping in that it likes to talk about a certain sex act.

 

Iain told us that an unexpected profane outburst was triggered by his nieces offering the nasty St Nick a slice of digital pizza, using the string "(pi)". We immediately launched a full scale investigation and attempted to replicate the bad behaviour.

 

We present the sickening results below:

 

El Reg says: pizza (pi)

 

Santa says: Yum! What do you want for Christmas, El Reg?

 

El Reg says: Maybe you shouldn't eat so much! You are quite large!

 

Santa says: My elves will get right on that. And what else are you wishing for this year, El Reg?

 

El Reg says: Maybe you shouldn't eat it?

 

Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!

 

El Reg says: Eat it

 

Santa says: No thank you. I don't eat things!

 

El Reg says: Eat it

 

Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!

 

El Reg says: Eat it

 

Santa says: You want me to eat what?!? It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else...

 

El Reg says: You dirty b*****d!

 

Santa says: I think you're dirty b*****d.

 

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Some of the comments are well worth reading