BBC Have your say infiltrated!

[Zathras]

Is anyone else bemused (and a little worried perhaps) by the increasingly rabid foaming-at-the-mouth comments posted on the BBC Have Your Say comments website?

Alas, not all of them may be genuine or even human! Check out this brilliant bit of coding. Can you teel if they're computer-generated or just pulled from an archive of actual postings to HYS? I had to check the javascript to be certain.

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougo...e-rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish-o-tron/

Passes the Turing Test (kinda), not so much down to improvements in Artificial Intelligence but due to ever poorer Human Intelligence

[Funkstar]

As it happens I was reading something about theis on El Reg just this morning:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/12/bbc_o_tron/

[Mike Fishcake]

I've been reading Speak You're Branes for a few months now, and it always entertains and infuriates me at the same time!

I wonder how long it will be before they report one of their auto-generated messages as a genuine one?