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Tuesday, 18 September 2018

If AI is so amazing, why does this keep happening ?

AI is easily defeated by birds on bikes and account names that start with SEX SEX SEX, for crying out loud.

Originally shared by Sakari Maaranen

Hey Google, I have many times heard how you consider yourselves some kind of science fiction superstars or similar. Here's a #ScienceTip for you: When a Google+ comment starts with the word "sex" repeated three times in capital letters, it is porn spam. If you do not know how to deal with it, allow me offer you another scientifically awesome tip: Delete it. I hope your science wonder system has a fantastic filter for that. Or maybe you like porn spam and I am just missing something?

6 comments:

  1. SEX SEX SEX? Who would start a comment with such things and not be porn? By the way, ask me about my holdings in Crete!

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  2. AI is not taking over the universe today.

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  3. There's an old joke, I forget who said it : "Why does porn come with a Share button ? Who watches porn and thinks, 'I know who else would like this : my friends and family !"

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  4. Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

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  5. Ahh, regular expressions. Only the most perverse of programmers think that strings of assorted parentheses and backslashes can be described as "regular" or "expressive"...

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  6. (?:(?:[a-zA-Z]+\s)*[a-zA-Z]+[,.!?'"]?\s)+

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Due to a small but consistent influx of spam, comments will now be checked before publishing. Only egregious spam/illegal/racist crap will be disapproved, everything else will be published.

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