you pretty much just summed up exactly how i feel about this stuff in one concise post

i adored shitbot, it was so funny and the coincidences and the cleverly-relevant words that had been fed to it meant it came out with some real gems, but yeah seeing people insist shitbot wasn't "real" was disappointing. like i thought... i dunno i expected people to be cleverer and less inclined to believe automatically that a little behind-the-scenes dicerolling is too hard to be anything other than magic.

(i wonder how they'd react if someone showed them an online d&d diceroller. would they insist it was secretly a person rolling dice real quick and typing the results at them to fake it for...whatever purpose? because that's something my mum would maybe have said several years ago lmao)

i've never coded anything more complex than variable/timer stuff in a program that was essentially constructed to help you program by translating all the code into english sentences but yeah, even i can tell skylar isn't... massively complex lmao. it's a cycle of wish fulfilment where people want her to like bees so they ask her about them and the probability of her using the word bees goes up it's not that complex and i don't really get it

remember when the creator experimented with new code and skylar spammed the word bees so much everyone was like "omg its retaliation for taking her bee picture" because i expected that to be funnier to me but then i saw people genuinely seeming to suspect that this was what took place and it just. sucked all the fun out of it because im too busy being disappointed in people

i used to love bot projects but now it's become something people seem to just want to accept as magic sentience and i'm just... sigh sigh sigh