Negobot has just been presented: it is a computer system capable of identifying pedophiles hunting online.
A new web monitoring system has been presented that could become a useful tool for combating online pedophilia.
Its name is Negobot and it is software designed by a group of researchers from the Spanish University of Deusto, led by Carlos Laorden.
Negobot is capable of identifying ambiguous individuals at risk of pedophilia because it operates within chats, fertile ground for these unscrupulous people.
The system simulates the creation of a 14-year-old girl’s profile, with a series of preloaded phrases, expressions, ways of speaking, and even with small typing errors, various typos, and typical chat abbreviations.
By launching Negobot in chat rooms, the software will remain “latent” until someone contacts the fake profile thus created.
At this point, the chat conversation will begin, with questions and answers, as usual and in a rather natural way.
This could lead to the identification of pedophiles, through trick questions and the analysis of the interlocutor’s responses.
Negobot bases its operating algorithm on game theory, known in the mathematical field. Through this, it has been programmed to have seven types of behavioral patterns, to better adapt to the situation in chat and to respond as a girl of about 14 years old might.
It is certainly software with a useful and interesting functionality but, like all programs and all machines, it lacks the human element: from jokes to ironic remarks, Negobot is unable to grasp certain nuances of conversation, relying on the literal meaning of the texts and thus losing the meaning of jokes and banter.
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