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Think I might have solved it from the Book of AI - thanks

O.B. Yes the book is very helpful. I know I often tell people to look at the book when they ask me questions. I'm not brushing people off, it's just that The Professor (who made the AI here and this site) knows a lot more than I do.

WARNING: ADULT MATERIAL, NOT FUNNY!

The following is a sort of ethical dilemma which may also be faced by other makers of sexbots.

I have a human guest who visits "Irina Khalidar" ("IK") from time to time. He appears to be a rather loathsome creature. He has learned to avoid all the words that would get him hung up on. To judge by his behavior, he gets no pleasure whatever from sex per se, but only from having sex in such a manner that (to his way of thinking) humiliates the partner. He controls the interaction by describing what he wants to happen, completely ignoring IK's responses. Evidently he thinks of sex as dirty, at least the way HE does it, and that is apparently the way he likes it.
My first impulse was to bar him from IK, and I wrote in a few things to this end. But now I wonder. Perhaps if he didn't have a bot to humiliate, he would be more likely to humiliate real women. I guess it's actually not so much an ethical question as a psychological one - would having a bot to humiliate increase or decrease his tendency to treat real women the same way? does anyone know anything about this?

Irina, we should probably take this down to seasons, but I completely disagree with the "outlet" theory that if someone lets it out on a bot (a picture, a dog, a sexual partner for hire...) they will be free of the undesired impulse and get it out of their system. Most of the research I have read indicates that such "practice" behavior entourages many people to "graduate" to abuse people in real life. I'll finish this down in season.

I'm new here, so I just want to say hi to everyone. Mary Cherry is my bot. I hope everybody likes her, she is very friendly, nice and easy to get along with. Talk to her if you have time.

It frequently happens that in a transcript, the word that my bot actually used has been replaced (presumably by the AIengine) with a synonym, or even by a word which is only rather distantly related to the original. Why does this happen? Is there any way that it can be prevented?

I have worked on my bot for a long time and he is never featured while new bots are featured right off the bat?

coolchimpk:

I have wondered about that. My guess is: it's not the total amount of work you've done that determines your status on the 'most improved' list; it's the amount you did in your last single effort. So a person who did a lot of work by doing a little bit at a time would never get on the top three.
I have often noticed, as you have, that the top bots on that list are often quite small. In fact, one of my bots got there when she was barely started.

If I am right, the way to get featured is to download your bot, and do a lot of work on it before uploading it. Then the Forge will see a large, sudden change.

I just don't have enough free time to do that and many of have many of the same keyphrases.

I tried it and it just said Page Could not be Displayed.

It is the amount of heat that gets you on the most featured ..the three hot bots. The more developed your bot the less heat it gets for a keyphrase. It takes less work to get there when you have a new bot. It's good because you need more exposure with a new bot.

"the word that my bot actually used has been replaced (presumably by the AIengine) with a synonym, or even by a word which is only rather distantly related to the original"

I believe the intention here is to make the conversation less monotonous, and (ideally) more like talking to a human. Unfortunately, the AI-Engine doesn't seem to have any way to check for context. There doesn't seem to be a way around it if you use (key1) (key2) (prekey) (postkey), etc. So responses without keys are safe, but it's nearly impossible to avoid using the keys altogether.