quarantine 'em

OK so if you remember this thread you may also remember that Google People doesn't show up in the Google Graveyard apparently (according to a Googler) the reason for that is because the project never "died", because internally it was never considered to be "alive" (cont.)https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1164301933949128709 …

I reset my pw and logged back in to Google People for the first time in 10 (?) years just now and discovered the following: 1. 10 years of updates on my account, written by me

2. also 10 years of "updates" for every other person I knew on there! I guess they made some algorithm to simulate continued activity? current hypothesis is that this was an attempt to game their metrics after it was really unpopular

3. INCLUDING PHOTOS

4. the algorithm is startlingly good at imitating my writing style for updates at first but it wanders way off topic and starts repeating itself because, you know, it's a bot. like how predictive text challenges always get locked in a loop