AOLiza continues. People still have conversations with a program in a chat room, without knowing it. Conversation 42, for example, is a fairly desperate 23-year old working in Starbucks, and…
AOLiza conversations
I'm documenting ongoing interactions between unsuspecting AOL users and AOLiza, a simple chatbot. These transcripts, like a desperate conversation with a Starbucks employee, capture the strange and often poignant ways people open up to automated programs.