“The only problem was that Van der Goot hadn’t written the tweet. Instead, Van der Goot had handed the Twitter account over to ‘jeff_ebooks’, a bot they created which could automatically send tweets and hold conversations as an eerie simulacrum of themselves. It was jeff_ebooks who had sent the threat, and it was its creator who was being held liable. Van der Goot told the Guardian that it makes no sense that they would be hauled in for questioning over a fairly mild claim made by an automatic Twitter account. The bot is what’s known as a markov chain generator, which uses a simple algorithm to create vaguely coherent sentences from a corpus of text.”
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