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I vaguely recall reading a story (probably 15-20-ish years ago) about someone doing exactly that with ICQ (or a similar service - memory is a bit hazy on the details!).

Create a fake profile of an attractive young lady who is interested in chatting to strangers, wait for inbound calls, pair them up with each other & record the resulting audio.

IIRC - the funniest one was a pairing where one participant wasn't phased by the situation they found themselves in, and still wanted the other participant to talk dirty to them...




Sure, any bot running on IRC (e.g. Eliza or A.L.I.C.E.) could run via Bitlbee (IRC to IM gateway originally a fork of Gaim/Pidgin) on other networks such as ICQ. There was also e.g. Licq which could spoof UIN and message, as well as that it had plugins for bots. I also had a friend who ran a sexbot called jenny on DALnet (not the IRC network with the most clever population). Fun times!


Perhaps you're thinking of Mark V Shaney's posts on the usenet group alt.singles

It was written by Rob Pike and Bruce Ellis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney




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