When I first learned about Markov chains in the early '00s, I found and hacked at a simple IRC bot, and deployed it to a number of rooms found in the mIRC defaults. It would sit in each channel and learn, only replying when DM'd.
I did give the bot a few hard-coded replies, namely to "ASL?" with "[random integer 20-30]/f/cali" and "pic?" with a random link to images from Google Image search. Otherwise it would happily barf up random Markov walks from all of the other conversations without any consideration of context.
In the span of one weekend at least five hundred unique users attempted to chat with it, some for hours on end. I only have a few logs left, but the conversations generally progressed from horny to irate or bizarre.
I did give the bot a few hard-coded replies, namely to "ASL?" with "[random integer 20-30]/f/cali" and "pic?" with a random link to images from Google Image search. Otherwise it would happily barf up random Markov walks from all of the other conversations without any consideration of context.
In the span of one weekend at least five hundred unique users attempted to chat with it, some for hours on end. I only have a few logs left, but the conversations generally progressed from horny to irate or bizarre.