Rejected by Adoption Agency

Like that is going to stop anything.

Yes, but have you read the sort of text these 'bots are capable of? May as well roleplay with a fencepost.

"So, how's that new insecticide working out for you? Still got a termite problem?"

Nor does it help that the bot in the Alphaville article has the surname, Putzo, which may well be intended as a nod to the author Mario, but is also suspended half-way between Yiddish "Putz" and Spanish "Puto," neither of which have particularly happy echoes in the circumstances.

Patasha and Vance,

Could you explain how to run your own Bot?

Are these the kid bots that Naughty Dreamscape is involved in offering?

There is literally nothing to it, to run one unscripted. Just get a copy of testclient from the OpenMetaverse library and launch it. Once you are logged in you can type help for a list of commands, you can set a control avatar (master) that the bot will obey commands from. Tell them to walk some place, sit on something, say something, you can control them completely from your "master" account. The bot needs it's own account of course. I run a ton of them in my OpenSims, they are great for playing with how many prims and agents you can have active in a region before it starts lagging the server. Someone in another thread mentioned you can get the chat script in XStreet for 20L, or in world for free. I haven't played with it yet, but I can't see it being terribly difficult to set up.

To play with one, I would say get a copy of OpenSim (a SL server you can run at home off-grid for experimentation), set up a region (takes about 1 minute), then connect to it with your client and a bot and go to town. The learning curve for TestClient is about.. oh.. 45 seconds. It's a command line client, so there's not a lot to it other than the text commands.

Oh one super fun thing to do.. is have about 20 bots in your OpenSim, all with the same master and set them to follow it. Put down a bunch of large prims in a maze and move around and watch the bots go crazy trying to find you. hehehe, I love aggravating brainless cartoon characters, I'm simple.

The open source stuff is awesome to play with, I spend probably 30 minutes a day at most in SL now.. and hours upon hours in my OpenSim grid. I mean where else can you Own a 21 region continent for 0 down and 0 a month. So I have my quiet little home I can build, script, animate to my hearts content, then when I have something I can sell I upload it to SL and don't have to worry about having to do 20 repeat uploads at 10L a piece to tweak something that's not quite right because poser doesn't export exactly like SL imports and the 'preview' only shows one avatar at a time.

Oops sorry, went off on a ramble there. Anyway.. Get OpenSim to play with this stuff so you don't have to worry about annoying people in SL

I thought it was just the owner of the store that was named Naughty.

EDIT: I see from your subsequent post that it is the bot. Weird.

That's been my assumption.

I remember being called "Naughty" for scratching holes in the screen doors. Does the word HAVE to be sexual these days? (=_=)

Blimey people! Is there a word in the English language that DOESN'T have a sexual connotation anymore? (=_=)

My bloody name is "Sideways"... What kind of suspicious innuendo are you going to spawn from that? (=_=)

From what I see, the KidBot adoption agency has adjusted their policies based on the bad publicity they got from that Herald article (Which you may see, I commented on... Reflecting on the "not dress at all" quote) and are being quite strict on who adopts their bots dependent on intent. (^_^)y

I think that our response to the word "Naughty" simply reflects current usage, esp. in SL. Try searching under "naughty" in-world, and I doubt it's irate mums who will be at the top of the list.

So the owner of this place sells "stripper bots" as well as kid bots. Her name is naughty and presumably her 'bots also carry the same name in many cases.

Why do I picture things working this way?

1. Person has a legion of bots designed initially for camping/traffic gaming

2. LL cracks down on bots

3. 'Bots are repurposed into more "legal" forms, including "adoptable kids," under the assumption that such a product would have value. Many are hastily assembled from various "kid-like" freebies and whatever skins, etc. that can be salvaged, causing for kids with lots of makeup and "naughty" names.

4. SL news paper hears about same, and decided to make a story out of it, including possible abuse of said 'bots.

5. Kid avvies and others complain to owner, causing the owner to start "policing" her possible clients.

6. Insert SL forum threads here.

At the same time, the term "Lolita" is a banned search keyword even though the current usage is in the context of EGL - Elegant Gothic Lolita. A fashion trend that both has nothing to do with children nor sex. (>_<

I'll more consider the context. Someone with skintight latex hip-huggers and "Naughty" tattooed on her exposed butt = Sexual. (=_=)

Kid with an RP backstory of slingshots and strategic chewed gum placement being referred to or named "Naughty" = Non-Sexual. (=_=)

Both, in my eyes, are 'current usage'. (=_=)y

/me notes the plural here... And the fact that it has come quite true. =^-^=

Shall we start another checklist? When's the next Gor thread start? (^_^)y

Slight correction, "loli" is banned, "Lolita" is not.

I'm pretty sure that in the States they have sexualized the entire dictionary..

"Dictionary" is a banned term...

I just checked. We both stand corrected. At this moment "loli" and "lolita" yield valid search results on All Search. Apparently LL can't sit still on what they want to ban. (=_=)

Yeah, language is a slippery thing, of course. And words can mean two things at once. I am guessing (and it IS just a guess) that the term "naughty" was intended to do double duty on this one. Particularly as, contextually speaking, the word is probably rather more heavily weighted to the sexual side in SL than is necessarily true in RL.

Unless, and this is certainly possible, it is used a lot in (nonsexualized) age play?

SL screwed up the search? I guess I shoulda seen that one coming.

Can the ALICE chatbot system or any other chat system be put into any object? If so, would I go about doing that?

Yes, it can, and people have been doing it successfully as I recall.

http://sl-devcorner.blogspot.com/2007/04/second-life-alice-bot-chat.html

I'm sure there are some more people doing things with it in-world if you search for it. I don't recall off the top of my head (maybe someone else has an SLURL).

Thanks a lot. This could be the solution to my problem. I could pay someone with the appropriate skills to build a bot, and then have it linked to the ALICE chat system.

Okay, as much as I am a card carrying anti child abuse believer in RL , I cannot for the life of me see what the furor is about basically a doll in SL.

It would be like outlawing dolls in RL and mannequins too I guess, because of what someone 'might' do to one.

I even argued for laws which forbid enacting pedophilia in cartoon form (in the forums in the past). But this...it's a doll. I don't get it.

The potential image is "icky" and easy to create an uproar about... And, it's an avatar like any other, just the client it runs on is a bot server somewhere. (>_<