This Twitter bot tricks angry trolls into arguing with it for hours

[Blue_Adept]

For reasons known only to them, some bigots spend their leisure time searching Twitter for concepts that upset them, then trying to provoke arguments with total strangers. This gives an addictive little thrill to the trolls, but it's inconvenient at best (and traumatic at worst) for the strangers.

So why not outsource the problem to a bot?

Sarah Nyberg has done just that with Arguetron, an automated Twitter account that baits angry Twitter eggs—the kind who use the word "cuck" and believe "white genocide" is a thing—into pointless fights. Sometimes for hours.

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http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/arguebot-twitter-bot-bait-jerks/

[ansible]

1. Pretty amusing how the only way to make AI look real is through trolling

[Loki Liesmith]

2. Clever idea. Seen it done many times before though

Nyberg is something of a troll herself, though, at least historically. Her adversaries just happen to be worse.

[lame54]

3. Like computer tic tac toe

[ColemanMaskell]

4. I love it. Thanks for posting.

[Blue_Adept]

6. It was certainly an amusing rabbit hole to follow for a bit

[The2ndWheel]

5. That would make the bot the original troll

Or maybe Sarah Nyberg I guess. This is what she does? Thinks of ways to make people pointlessly argue on twitter? Is it just pointless arguments all the way down?

[ck4829]

7. "Oh dear, she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot."