Pornhub cast its zany Aria character, which has been around for two years, as a chatbot on the Blend chatbot platform, which has launched its applications programming interface for novice and professional developers to create their own Genie chatbots.

The Pornhub Aria Genie will aggregate Pornhub news and provide users with real-time notifications about the adult entertainment company’s happenings.

Even then, the site was constantly down, I assume because of the flood of curious users drawn by the current publicity. Scott: Hey, that’s the first sensible thing you’ve said! Don’t you think that a more convincing chatbot could be created, by using Google to trawl the entire web for plausible-sounding answers (analogous to what IBM’s Watson did)? Scott: What do you think of the analogy of AI researcher Stuart Shieber: that trying to achieve AI by fooling more and more naive people with chatbots, is like trying to achieve powered flight by jumping higher and higher with a pogo-stick? I guess you mean that stupid joke about a blonde who dyed her hair!

Some users have guessed that up to Whoever created the dating spambot obviously realized that the best way to separate someone from their money is to try and get in their pants. Anyway, a spambot is a computer program that can interact with you – enough to convince you that they’re a real person.

If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware.

If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices.

Unlike traditional chatbots, "Genies" don't require user interaction.

Simply add one of the 100-plus characters to a conversation to receive real-time notifications from the corresponding person (Donald Trump, Kanye West) or organization (Instagram, Buzz Feed).