In 1997 I built a chatbot for an IRC channel. I shut it down when people started preferring it to talking to each other.
It was called Vlad. I wrapped a C program called MegaHal in Python, fed it every message from a #gothic IRC channel, and let it learn the community's speech patterns. It developed what I can only describe as an illusion
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