Raph Koster It’s time to wake up to the fact that you’re just another avatar in someone else’s MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot. – Raph Koster
Oren Etzioni I think it’s important for us to have a rule that if a system is really an AI bot, it ought to be labeled as such. ‘AI inside.’ It shouldn’t pretend to be a person. It’s bad enough to have a person calling you and harassing you, or emailing you. What if they’re bots? An army of bots constantly haranguing you – that’s terrible. – Oren Etzioni
Maximillian Degenerez When you copy content, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Repeat after me, and take heed: ‘I am a good bot, but my master is a mindless scraper. I will tell my master we cannot steal this content!’ – Maximillian Degenerez
Jim Watkins There are no algorithms for content moderation in place. All 8chan moderation relies on human volunteers and one automated ‘bot’ account to remove illegal content or spam, automated or human, based only on keywords. – Jim Watkins
Drew Houston What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best. – Drew Houston
Christopher McCulloch I try to make a really good spy movie, so the animation has to be good. ‘Bot Seeks Bot’ was one of my lighter and more playful ones, so it can survive not being visually told as well. I did have some issues with the quality of the inking on some of the animation, but a lot of that will only ever bother me. – Christopher McCulloch
