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Book excerpt / report page
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Summary
This document appears to be a page from a book or report (page 73) included in a House Oversight production. It features the famous Peter Steiner cartoon about internet anonymity and contains text discussing the Turing test and an anecdote about the author trying to determine if a customer support email responder was a human or a machine. The text cuts off at the bottom of the page.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| P. Steiner | Cartoonist |
Signature on the cartoon depicted on the page.
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| Unidentified Narrator ('I') | Author |
The person writing the text who describes an interaction with customer support.
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| Name | Type | Context |
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| The New Yorker |
Magazine that published the referenced cartoon.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (1 events)
2000
The New Yorker ran the 'On the Internet no one knows you are a dog' cartoon (according to the text).
The New Yorker Magazine
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Complete text extracted from the document (802 characters)
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P. Steiner
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
New Yorker Cartoon
With the anonymity the Internet provides we can imagine all sorts of strange scenarios if the Turing test could be passed. You would have no way of knowing what you were talking to. The New Yorker ran a cartoon back in 2000. “On the Internet no one knows you are a dog.” We come across a similar problem the other way around when we encounter bad customer support. A few years ago, while trying to get an answer to a computer problem, I became convinced the thing responding to my emails was a machine. The company did use machine responder technology so it could well have been. I asked it to prove it was human by putting the word marmalade into an English sentence and fixing my
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