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comment by Kafke
Kafke  ·  3539 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A brilliant Tinder hack made hundreds of bros unwittingly flirt with each other

    IIRC there was a chatbot or something that did the same thing to spoof a Turing test, but I can't find anything about it; maybe it hasn't happened yet.

Probably talking about cleverbot. Which does something similar. It logs old responses and uses them to respond to people. This made some users thing they were randomly being paired up, and then swapped every now and again in mid conversation.

    It seems like it would be very difficult to prevent this; I wonder what Tinder will do?

They can't do anything short of requiring actual identification for your account. And that still doesn't stop someone from doing this.