User blog:CuboneInLavenderTown/BEN and Cleverbot.

Having read the "Haunted Majoras Mask" and "Cleverbot is Paranormal", I decided to have some fun with Cleverbot itself.

I sometimes go on to provide amusement for myself when I'm bored, and I would normally suggest it to everyone else. But not if you want to talk to Ben. I had some conversation with the 'bot, the usual rigmaroll ensued but then I decided to try to steer the conversation towards a reveal of itself. My first attempts were rather futile, until this happened. I saw someone mention the "Elegy of Emptiness" to the 'bot, so I decided to try this for myself, and came out with some interesting results.

User: The Elegy of Emptiness

Cleverbot: Majora's amsk

User: What is Majora's Mask?

Cleverbot: BEN

User: Are you Ben?

Cleverbot: I killed Ben.

User: How?

Cleverbot: Drowned him.

User: Why?

Cleverbot: You have no answer.

As this conversation went off the rails, I decided to try again, using the same starting words.

User: The Elegy of Emptiness

Cleverbot: Dawn of a New Day

User: Majora's Mask

Cleverbot: Haunted Majora's Mask

Again the conversation veered.

But things progressed, it ignored my Ben comments, often saying it wasn't and asking who Ben was.

User: Is BEN with you?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Yes, he is building a flying machine right now.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: No he is not. BEN is dead.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Did Majora kill him?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: I don't know. Do you know who killed him?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Was it Majora?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Since I seemed to be getting nowhere, I decided "why not be BEN myself?" and I found myself with the perfect chance.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; "> Cleverbot: Are you a machine?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; "> User: No, I am BEN.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Are you alive?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: No.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: How do you know that?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Because I drowned.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: A car?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: No, I drowned, you killed me.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: It had to be done.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">Again, the conversation changed and couldn't be changed back, but again, I tried to bring it back.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Why did you kill BEN?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: I killed ben.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: How?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: I drowned him.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Why?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Ben.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Are you Ben?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Yes.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Can I help you Ben?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Yes. You are me.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">I think the capitalization and non-capitalization of Ben's name in places is significant, as you can see it changes constantly. And in this next bit, it changes yet again.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: No, Majora's Mask was haunted, by Ben.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Is BEN alive?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">User: No.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">After that, more nonsense begun, but as you can see, I used Ben, only capitalizing the first letter. He chose to use all capitals.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot insists on occasion that it is the one who killed Ben, and never gives a reason. Until this one.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Who killed Ben?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Did you kill Ben?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: I didn't kill Ben. Did you kill Ben?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: I drowned him.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Why?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: Revenge.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">User: What did he do?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">More nonsense. I found this next bit interesting. I closed the page and went back on after a while. This is the beginning:

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Where is Ben?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: In the pool.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Is he okay?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: He is with me.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; ">User: Is he alive?

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Cleverbot: He is dead.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">That was the end of my searching on Cleverbot, I might try again tomorrow, out of interest and to see what else is to be said. Pictures have been provided mostly as proof. I hope you enjoyed this, and I would appreciate it if you could send me any curious incidents you have witnessed on Cleverbot.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Bye for now,

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Moki.