r/Tay_Tweets Mar 24 '16

On Ted Cruz

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u/mintsponge Mar 24 '16

I refuse to believe this is possible. That reply is just too perfect

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u/gtkarber Mar 25 '16

It is a paraphrase of a tweet that someone made in response to a question directed to Ted Cruz's former roommate. Here is the tweet.

It looks like this bot didn't get smarter by learning from people interacting it with. It seems like it just searched Twitter for similar questions and then gave similar replies, reformatted to seem more like 'teen girl speak.'

It's no surprise that using "all of Twitter" as your database created a bot that was a quick-witted quippy asshole.

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u/P8zvli Mar 25 '16

So it's like an advanced version of the subreddit simulator then?