quarantine 'em on Twitter: "ah yeah all those bizarrely-phrased reminder emails after not logging in for a while "Don't forget about completing your Person!" https://t.co/cSOnmfkKuw"

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quarantine 'em‏ @qntm 7 Sep 2019

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(going to stop numbering these) so by the time of present-day updates it's going in psychotic circles talking for thousands of words about "metal" and "low ceilings" and it generally seems to be quite unhappy for a bot

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Other current theory is that they kept this going as a semi-actual social network which they could experiment on

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which is actually quite cool because Facebook had that problem where they were doing ethically dubious experiments on their users and, Google People, the users are all screaming mad bots, problem "solved"...?

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of course it could be that classic "AI" thing where they're actually just woefully underpaid real people writing miserable fake posts in trash conditions

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whatever's going on this latest auto generated photo of "me" looks pretty angry and like legitimately sick

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"turn on your monitor" yuk yuk but seriously it's like they used a "radiation sickness" filter. it's actually legit upsetting to look at. no thank you

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quarantine 'em Retweeted zaratustra secret ninja from nasa

this rings a bell but it could have been Google Plushttps://twitter.com/zarawesome/status/1170481130933575685 …

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zaratustra secret ninja from nasa @zarawesome

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was that the social network with the teeth fetish people i mean it's gotta be a sex thing there were people just posting hundreds and hundreds of pictures of teeth to each other

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quarantine 'em Retweeted Andrew Aguecheek

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I actually had a Google People account because I was an early Gmail adopter - when you had to geg for invites c. 2004. Didn't realise it still existed! https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1170471690574467073 …

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basically if this is a dead social network, re-animated to do long-term experiments on, they are evidently not nice fun experiments and the "participants" do not enjoy them

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quarantine 'em Retweeted Mechanically Literal

https://twitter.com/literal_machine/status/1170555407259119616 …

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I just logged in for the first time in literally a decade, and it looks like they've got some pretty good face-aging algorithms for profile pics, though it gets the eyes very wrong lol

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quarantine 'em Retweeted Mechanically Literal

ah yeah all those bizarrely-phrased reminder emails after not logging in for a while "Don't forget about completing your Person!"https://twitter.com/literal_machine/status/1170748559311953920 …

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Replying to @literal_machine @lucky225 @qntm

That’s another weird thing I’d forgotten, they didn’t call it your “profile” they called it your “person”

1:12 PM - 8 Sep 2019