Someone Created A Twitter Troll Program That Gets Real Trolls Arguing With It For Hours On End

Daily Dot – For reasons known only to them, some bigots spend their leisure time searching Twitter for concepts that upset them, then trying to provoke arguments with total strangers. This gives an addictive little thrill to the trolls, but it’s inconvenient at best (and traumatic at worst) for the strangers.

So why not outsource the problem to a bot?

Sarah Nyberg has done just that with Arguetron, an automated Twitter account that baits angry Twitter eggs—the kind who use the word “cuck” and believe “white genocide” is a thing—into pointless fights. Sometimes for hours.

It’s been said by many people that there’s nothing dumber than arguing on the internet and I feel like nothing has ever proved it as explicitly as this lady’s program. Just idiots who search terms on Twitter for the sole purpose of bitching angrily with nothing better to do, so desperate for someone to engage with them and validate their existence. And honestly the AI for this robot seems as credible as any argument on Twitter I’ve ever been a party to:

Weird anonymous dudes trying to argue with and fuck a Twitter robot because it has a girl’s name is the most predictable thing ever. But honestly this could be a lifesaving invention. By diverting the attention from these dudes who’d otherwise be tweeting angrily at other living humans, they’re getting the cathartic circular arguments they’re looking for and not wasting any real people’s time. It’s really a much lower budget, sadder but more functional version of Westworld on HBO. These Twitter robots can take it without consequence and save everyone else the effort along the way, these arguing losers will never know any better, and the world gets one stop closer to its inevitable AI-based destruction. Win-win-win (kinda).

PS don’t rule out that one of these could be coming to the comment section with Barstool’s newfound proficiency in tech with our new app. The initial Wilburham 1.0 was primitive but did its job, the Bradygoat beta showed promise but quickly got into a paradoxical loop of obnoxiousness. Stay woke.