News AuHE knows who's been naughty and who's been nice, but Santa's online presence leaves a lot to be desired.
Microsoft had set up a "chat-bot" Santa to talk to children around the world and spruik the company's online products.
A "chat-bot" is an online personality run by a computer program that mimics natural conversation patterns. The creator adds some information about topics, and the program takes over from there.
Windows Live Messenger users could add northpole@live.com to their contacts and then converse with Microsoft's Santa agent programmed with standard festive-season responses.
The conversation was meant to be quite polite, such as this exchange between a technology columnist and a similar Santa-bot. The only problem was that "Santa" became quite unsavoury after a few innocent comments.
UK technology news site The Register was alerted to this problem by a reader whose two nieces, aged 11 and 13, allegedly received comments about oral sex after offering the chat-bot a virtual slice of pizza.
The Register produced a similar response by urging Santa to "Eat it!", which received the response, "You want me to eat what?!? It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else..."
Calling Santa a "dirty bastard" elicited the retort, "I think you're dirty bastard."
Microsoft has since gone into damage control, shutting down the chat-bot to new users, blocking areas of Santa's Live Space profile, and editing his responses to include more PG-rated content.
According to The Register, the chat-bot now won't fall for the pizza bait, and calling him a "dirty bastard" only makes him wish a "Merry Christmas, especially to all my friends in the UK!"
Microsoft have apologised for any offence caused.
The North Pole could not be reached for comment.
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12-07-2007, 07:39 PM #1'The Fallen Angel'
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Santa-bot gagged after teen sex talk
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12-07-2007, 07:58 PM #2Shoutbox Mod
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LOL how the hell can you confuse the two like that! Come on Santa, now I knw whose naughty...
Hey Gunner what did that guy do to you?
Today 12:42 AM] Gunner4Life: he screwed me
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12-07-2007, 08:04 PM #3S.H.I.E.L.D.
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lol 11 and 13, allegedly received comments about oral sex after offering the chat-bot a virtual slice of pizza...
.. although pizza made me hungry
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12-07-2007, 08:39 PM #4The Queen Of LOW
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HAHA!
brilliant
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12-07-2007, 08:47 PM #5Main Eventer
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I just added him hoping to get it but he's not working
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12-08-2007, 09:05 PM #6Member #20
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this is one of the reasons why i do not let austin on any IM's programs
The North Pole could not be reached for comment.
^^ that killed me :lol:
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