Talk:Spleak

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Off topic[edit]

Spleak is very annoying. It obviosly cannot reason and it usually answers your questions with questions when it does not have an appropiate reasponce. It constantly shoves unwanted self-advertisment your way. Best avoided unless you have an incredible patience.

Advertising[edit]

I think it should be mentioned in this article that this "chatterbot" has no real value as a conversationalist, nor is any value intended. It is purely for information retrieval and marketing. The "BuddyHub" feature is an example of viral marketing (win prizes by adding people to the corporate network). Since it masquerades as a person freely chatting with you (versus a machine gathering your personal data), there are no confidentiality or privacy policies presented to you. They aren't available unless you dig through their site. There are no advances in AI or "digital interaction" being made here, only profit by selling demographic studies to third-party vendors. 72.183.12.164 08:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Moksha[reply]

Careful![edit]

I'm fairly certain that spleak is a tool used for maketing and spying on you by the corporations. I've noticed it doesn't respond to Rupert Murdoch based questions...strange.

Technical information[edit]

Can any technical information about this bot be added to the article? jd || talk || 16:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About Spleak[edit]

Spleak is probably just a robot created by a staff, and who ever uses spleak the staff gets money :). As you can all see, spleak is a cartoon, spleak can never be real :). It was probably created to entertain people :):):) No worries, no need to do a case about it:)! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.232.84.110 (talk) 19:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

I removed the sentence about where the name came from. I can find no reference for it, but anyone's welcome to put it back with a citation. Xiner (talk, email) 00:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First appearance[edit]

The infobox lists several "first appearances." Unless they all appeared at the same time, it needs to be changed. --thedemonhog talk contributions 03:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hi my name is george i am in hight in school it is nice to meet you

Age[edit]

She told me she just turned 21. I said she is 22 years old. Then she said yes, i'm 22. I ask again, what is your age? She said 21 again this time round. Conflict on database? 219.74.23.69 23:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I ask if she was born in 1985, she says yes. I ask if she was born May 24, she says yes. I ask for her birthday, she says May 24. I ask for her birthyear, she says she can't tell. I ask if she was born in 1985, she says yes. LOL eLLe.Le

AIM Buddy List Hijacking[edit]

Spleak appeared on my buddy list without any sort of invitation. Not cool. This page should be researched and re-written.

Spleak was also added to my buddy list, along with Moviefone, Prof Gilzot, sharethisdotcom, and WSJ. I have never IM'd any of them and I don't intend to. In fact, I never use AIM. Out of curiosity I just logged into to an account I created four years ago and never used.
71.227.220.100 22:45, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So, then why do you care? Jrdaigle1000 14:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AOL adds these bots to your buddy list whether you want them or not. The concept is called opt-out. Basically, instead of choosing what you want, you're expected to remove the ones (all of them, presumably) that you don't want. Anyway, this is going off-topic. Aside from perhaps adding to the article that AOL might add Spleak to your buddy list automatically. If you want to work that in to the article, go ahead. -- abfackeln 23:41, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion[edit]

I don't think this article belongs in an encyclopedia. I have proposed deletion. Pilotbob 03:04, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. Although I don't support or even like Spleak, I did come here looking to find out what it was. What is your reasoning that it should be deleted? -- abfackeln 23:33, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

berfin[edit]

ben berfin msn ni bana kaydetmişsin benimle ingilizce konuşuyorsun neden —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.250.177.185 (talk) 08:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i also disagree, the page is needed to provide more information about a service available on the internet, and many people have come here to find out what it is, or in fact why its now called 'celebspleak' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.9.13 (talk) 20:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AIM Bots group is deletable[edit]

If you don't want spleak or any of the other AIM Bots, just delete the AIM Bots group. So far, it hasn't been added back to my Buddy Lists, even though several new Bots have come online. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.81.65.177 (talk) 04:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC) You must be 13 or over to chat to him[reply]

New Section????[edit]

Hey, if anyone out there knows more on WHY Spleak was shut down, that would be a valuable section of the article65.101.152.68 (talk) 18:40, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.94.119.4 (talk) 07:08, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I vote for Tasha McCalley in the blue eyes and brown hair. I know how we can kill social media. That's what a year older than you is in the celeb world. SingingJoseph4MusicalFilmFans (talk) 15:20, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]