Showing posts with label heteronormativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heteronormativity. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2011

WTF Cleverbot?



My partner plays World of Warcraft. We were talking about the different bots people use in the game, and how sophisticated some of them are. That made me think of Cleverbot, the website where you can have a conversation with an artificial intelligence program. So I went over there.

I started by asking, "Do you play WOW?"

It replied, "No, I'm a girl."

There are girls who play WOW.

Are you a boy?

No.

You are a boy.

What makes you think that?

Because you love me and I am a girl.

I could be a lesbian.

You're a man?

No.

Is Scotland better than England?

Not only are you sexist and heteronormative, you're ethnocentric too.

You cannot claim ownership of that statement.

I totally own that statement.

Yes.

Seriously, who programs this thing?