Busy boyfriend creates bot to chat with his girlfriend
The girlfriend got suspicious when her boyfriend replied a little too fast
“Baby, this is our 618th day together. Hope you’ll feel bright as the sun.”
A romantic text like that from a partner is liable to make anyone’s day brighter. But what follows next in this conversation might seem a bit more strange.
“Temperature: 18.0° - 34.0° C… Wind: Level 3… Air quality: 42.0”
If this makes you suspect something is amiss, you’d be right. It’s not your sweetheart. It’s your sweetheart’s bot.
A programmer in China working for ecommerce platform JD.com made a chatbot after he realized he was neglecting his girlfriend’s messages on WeChat because of work. The chatbot worked 24/7 and would promptly reply to each of his girlfriend’s queries.
The software engineer, Li Kaixiang, posted on microblogging site Weibo that he was surprised to find that his girlfriend had exchanged 300 messages with the bot by the time he finished work.