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[Dannyalcatraz]

Big Purple

???

 

[gban007]

???

Barney catching strays

 

[Willie the Duck]

???

RPG.net, I'm sure.

 

[dragoner]

That was their theme name.

 

[trappedslider]

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James's sake!
If you won't give me one,
I'll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

 

[The Soloist]

Yesterday, a Meta AI community bot started asking questions about the best solo RPG for beginners in our solo group. I thought let's do what James T Kirk did. I feed it 30 posts with random illogical fnord sentences! It won't have any effect but it was fun. What if we start feeding Fnord lines to AI, all the time and every where?

This morning the admin was able to turn it off.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James's sake!
If you won't give me one,
I'll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

As I get older, I feel more and more like the might have been on to something...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yesterday, a Meta AI community bot started asking questions about the best solo RPG for beginners in our solo group. I thought let's do what James T Kirk did. I feed it 30 posts with random illogical fnord sentences! It won't have any effect but it was fun. What if we start feeding Fnord lines to AI, all the time and every where?

This morning the admin was able to turn it off.

Been “Captain Kirk”-ing clankers for years- mostly the ones that call me on the phone. When I ID a spam caller as some form of automaton, my communications get weirder.

Occasionally I’d just talk in a foreign language. I’ve asked them to confirm their shoe size. I’ve sung “The Space Hippo” song. I’ve used unending strings of expletives or- borrowing a page from Mom- ask it to pray with me. The more resilient ones stick to their scripts and tell me I’m not a viable candidate for their services, then hang up.

But I have gotten a few to metaphorically smoke, shake and shut down. For example, I got one into a feedback loop where it just kept robotically repeating, “ha-ha. No. ha-ha. No. ha-ha. No.” before it disconnected.

EDIT: a Forum search revealed that not only have I apparently mentioned this before in this very thread, I’ve been doing this since at least as far back as 2012-13.

Thread 'Rise of the (scamming?) machines!'

Feb 24, 2013

Some may recall how I "Captain Kirk-ed" a phone call I was getting from a very natural sounding interactive robo-caller from a home security company- sometimes a couple of times a day- by discussing my extreme fascination with hippos and other non-sequiturs. Eventually, my nonsense got it into a stuttering/stammering loop with parts of 2 different sentences, and it hung up. It has not called me back in over a year.

Round 2 occurred today, with a call* from "someone" claiming that I was getting the call in response to an online survey I completed (I didn't), and that someone in my...

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[Ryujin]

Been “Captain Kirk”-ing clankers for years- mostly the ones that call me on the phone. When I ID a spam caller as some form of automaton, my communications get weirder.

Occasionally I’d just talk in a foreign language. I’ve asked them to confirm their shoe size. I’ve sung “The Space Hippo” song. I’ve used unending strings of expletives or- borrowing a page from Mom- ask it to pray with me. The more resilient ones stick to their scripts and tell me I’m not a viable candidate for their services, then hang up.

But I have gotten a few to metaphorically smoke, shake and shut down. For example, I got one into a feedback loop where it just kept robotically repeating, “ha-ha. No. ha-ha. No. ha-ha. No.” before it disconnected.

I wish that I got automated ones. All of the ones that call me are still using cheap fraud farms in India.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I wish that I got automated ones. All of the ones that call me are still using cheap fraud farms in India.

In our house, we call those callers “Peggys”, calling back to an old Discover Card ad campaign:

And of course, Peggy has a Wiki page.

Peggy (Discover Card) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org