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one page of 19 or so www.christianforums.com/online/?type=robot&page=18

Frequently, or when checked anyway, daily hundreds of bots RECORDING/COPYING everything...

And anything posted can and will be used against anyone whenever 'they' (with the power) decide to.
 

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one page of 19 or so www.christianforums.com/online/?type=robot&page=18

Frequently, or when checked anyway, daily hundreds of bots RECORDING/COPYING everything...

And anything posted can and will be used against anyone whenever 'they' (with the power) decide to.

Yeah, it is a bit bizarre to see 'bots' scrambling everywhere. What's even more bizarre to me is that they don't seem to be alighting on what I would think are the heavier topics.

Are they actually recording everything, or just being selective?
 
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Yeah, it is a bit bizarre to see 'bots' scrambling everywhere. What's even more bizarre to me is that they don't seem to be alighting on what I would think are the heavier topics.

Are they actually recording everything, or just being selective?
They're scanning for keywords used in marketing trends. I'd sure like to get some iPods on Amazon. There, I'm sure that got their attention.
 
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They're scanning for keywords used in marketing trends. I'd sure like to get some iPods on Amazon. There, I'm sure that got their attention.

I love your sense of humor, ozso! ^_^
 
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Maybe the bots can put the threads into an AI model that will be able to harmonize all our doctrines :).

I wonder how they'd do that if they tried......? Fortunately, I don't think we need their help since we already have Someone who can do so.
 
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Yeah, it is a bit bizarre to see 'bots' scrambling everywhere. What's even more bizarre to me is that they don't seem to be alighting on what I would think are the heavier topics.

Are they actually recording everything, or just being selective?

That I don't know but they vacuum up content from every discussion forum on the internet the same way.

AI definitely knows everyones thoughts...lol.
 
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I wonder how they'd do that if they tried......? Fortunately, I don't think we need their help since we already have Someone who can do so.

Have you noticed AI overviews of Bible verses? I have noticed it since this AI overview Google has. I don't have Bible verses chapters and such memorized, but I do know the words.

When writing I often have a verse come to mind so I'll Google the first words of a verse so I can know the chapter and verse quickly and quote it properly.

Sometimes the AI overviews aren't bad but most the time they miss the point of the Bible verse altogether.

It's messed up if people start believing an AI interpretation of Scripture. It won't produce anything close to Christianity in doctrine.
 
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Have you noticed AI overviews of Bible verses? I have noticed it since this AI overview Google has. I don't have Bible verses chapters and such memorized, but I do know the words.

When writing I often have a verse come to mind so I'll Google the first words of a verse so I can know the chapter and verse quickly and quote it properly.

Sometimes the AI overviews aren't bad but most the time they miss the point of the Bible verse altogether.

It's messed up if people start believing an AI interpretation of Scripture. It won't produce anything close to Christianity in doctrine.

I completely agree with you on this. Those are some excellent points.
 
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Anything you say can and will be used against you in a woke court of law.
Well, there is the old saying: "If Christianity were declared illegal, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"
 
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Yeah, it is a bit bizarre to see 'bots' scrambling everywhere. What's even more bizarre to me is that they don't seem to be alighting on what I would think are the heavier topics.

Are they actually recording everything, or just being selective?
Both happens.

It's the same way NSA works. Record everything, then search as needed for specifics.

Back in the early 80s we learned to write complex queries that would be several pages of single-spaced text. By the latter 80s, there were already "AI search engines" (not what we called it back then) that would take a "prompt" (not what we called it back then) and start pulling results. It would study how we handled the results (read and saved, read and deleted, deleted without reading, et cetera) to further determine what we were more interested in. It made such judgements by hundreds of factors in each category. For instance, did we tend to delete without reading according to source type or source age or even just the length of the result? Then it would re-write our queries automatically and continue searching.

It often discovered items of interest we didn't even know existed.
 
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Both happens.

It's the same way NSA works. Record everything, then search as needed for specifics.
I sort of figured as much, even though I don't know the specifics it all.
Back in the early 80s we learned to write complex queries that would be several pages of single-spaced text. By the latter 80s, there were already "AI search engines" (not what we called it back then) that would take a "prompt" (not what we called it back then) and start pulling results. It would study how we handled the results (read and saved, read and deleted, deleted without reading, et cetera) to further determine what we were more interested in. It made such judgements by hundreds of factors in each category. For instance, did we tend to delete without reading according to source type or source age or even just the length of the result? Then it would re-write our queries automatically and continue searching.

It often discovered items of interest we didn't even know existed.

That's an interesting bit of history. I know the 'i-net' goes back to at least the 1960s, but I wasn't aware the search engine complex was that old.
 
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