{"id":14319,"date":"2015-02-11T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/algopop-twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:13:04","slug":"algopop-twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/algopop-twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14319 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/algopop-twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police\/attachment\/14320\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_njlyfi5m0X1rman24o1_640-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/algopop-twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police\/attachment\/14321\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_njlyfi5m0X1rman24o2_640-100x75.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/algopop-twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police\/attachment\/14322\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_njlyfi5m0X1rman24o3_640-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/algopop.tumblr.com\/post\/110719553018\/twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police-jeffry\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">algopop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jvdgoot\/status\/565484358010929152\">Twitter-bot death threats and the police<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jvdgoot\">Jeffry Van Der Goot<\/a> had a twitter-bot that was a Markov-ebooks type, remixing his own personal twitter profile, \u201cit takes all my tweets I\u2019ve ever made, takes random chunks of it and tries to make new sentences that make sense\u201d. The bot somehow rearranged his words in a way that would read as a death threat. That \u2018death-threat\u2019 tweet also mentioned a twitter user: another bot, making it sound like the bot was sending a death-threat to another bot. The police detected the death threat and visited the programmer, to investigate the threat. After having to explain that the bot is not him, and that the sentences are semi-random and generative, the police stated that it was his responsibility\u2026 \u201cBut apparently *I\u2019m* responsible for what the bot says, since it\u2019s under my name and based on my words.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>algopop: Twitter-bot death threats and the police Jeffry Van Der Goot had a twitter-bot that was a Markov-ebooks type, remixing his own personal twitter profile, \u201cit takes all my tweets I\u2019ve ever made, takes random chunks of it and tries to make new sentences that make sense\u201d. The bot somehow rearranged his words in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3IX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14323,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions\/14323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}