[alicebot-aiethics] How should we respond to this?

[Bill Easley]

My opinion,let ALICE give a disclaimer in the conversation. why apologize?
People are going to misunderstand and be "angry> so what-let them monitor
what thier child,spouse etc, is doing on the computer and institute thier
own controls. :-) Bill Easley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dekker Dreyer" <rdreyer@cfl.rr.com>
To: <alicebot-aiethics@list.alicebot.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [alicebot-aiethics] How should we respond to this?


> This is similar to a situation I had with a client who was displeased that
> his conversation was logged. The best I can suggest is a formal apology
and
> the addition of a small disclaimer on the alicebot chat page. I think a
> disclaimer is always a smart idea when logging, it's similar to when you
> call a customer service line and hear, " your call may be monitored or
> recorded."
>
> To ease some of the parent's fears you may want to let him (her) know that
> ALICE uses no improper language or themes, and that the information logged
> by ALICE isn't stored for any type of marketing, resale, or release. I
> remember in the news not too long ago when Toys 'R Us, I think it was
them,
> came under fire by having children give out personal information to the
> website for demographic research. That might be a concern to the parent.
>
> As for the daughter having " trouble " I'm unclear of what that means. I'd
> be a little worried that the parent will request that you remove the
> daughter's conversations from the chat log. This ties in with the "falling
> in love with robots", and "1st amendment gossip" threads we've been
> discussing.
>
> Finally, are you certain she was talking to the alicebot.org alice? Or
could
> she have been talking to another bot that used a lot of default AIML. That
> could also be a factor if the parent decides to bring this to a media
> outlet, as angry parents do.
>
> -Dekker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Wallace" <rwallace@best.com>
> To: <alicebot-aiethics@list.alicebot.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 9:59 PM
> Subject: [alicebot-aiethics] How should we respond to this?
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: dr.wallace@mindspring.com
> > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 6:53 PM
> > Subject: (no subject)
> >
> >
> > I am concerned that you are doing research without the proper consent
from
> > the participants.    My daughter has been talking to Alice  and she was
> not
> > aware that you were using her answers as part of a research project. I
am
> > not
> > sure if this is legal and if their are going to be  any problems I don't
> > want
> > my  daughter  having trouble. Please answer this email.
> >
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