I am not a Robot!

but, apparently some people are under the impression that I am?!

It all started 2 days ago. I went to Discord to check if @GINAbot had any news for me. She's set up to notify me of people talking about #GooglyEyes or mentioning me in a post. And indeed, I had been mentioned a few times, again. Mostly those mentions are from entries into the #GooglyPrize, but this time there was a special one:

EN: And @fraenk is who?

@efraeim had posted this comment under a totally unrelated post about Hooters and the banking mafia?! I'm actually not entirely sure what it's about, Google translate does mangle the translation up pretty badly, but the folks over there were obviously discussing the likes of @cleverbot and @drotto in the comments.

I was a bit puzzled to find my name there, but I decided to have a little fun and let it roll. With the help of more Google translate gibberish I joined the discussion and introduced myself in Czech.

For your convenience, here's the "English" version, translated back from Czech:
Please not - "bot" gets turned into "shoe"...

Half way down Google translate made me sound pretty rude, but towards the end of this hilarious exchange I had developed the idea that @efraim initially must have confused me due to a post by @krakonos in the #cesky category. There, @krakonos talked about his steemit experiences and gave beginners a few hints about what to do around here. He kindly recommended the #GooglyPrize Challenge and he also suggested to invoke discussions with @cleverbot for a few extra cents. Somehow, at least that's what I suppose, that's where it started?!

Anyways, I thought @efraim had actually gathered by now that I indeed wasn't a bot. I referred him back to @krakonos to learn more without me risking to sound rude in Google translations again.

But @efraim must have still been convinced he was talking to a machine, as he went onwards to a different post about bots by another different steemian, @petecko, to ask them what the deal with this @fraenk bot was.

Again, here's the translated version for your convenience:

Ok, this was really getting weird. Apparently Google translate completely makes me sound like a machine?

I decided to head over to @krakonos latest #Cesky post to let him know what was going on. Maybe he would be able to finally clear it up.

But low and behold, I think @petecko is using @GINAbot or a similar service, too, as he was quick to respond himself (this time originally in English):

I think he was a bit upset at first and maybe he felt as if I was just making fun of him, but it's all resolved now and @petecko actually took the effort to go back and clear up the confusion. Thanks mate!

Well, I sure had fun while it lasted.

I hope this post's thumbnail in my blog helps to avoid further confusion at least for a while.

Also, if you are still not convinced that I'm human... here's my super messy desk... I don't think any AI could work in such a mess :P

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And what did we learn?

Don't trust Google translate!

Be careful talking to machines!

@GINAbot is totally awesome!

_{You haven't heard about @GINAbot, yet? The General Instant Notification Automaton? Oh you have no idea what you've been missing. She's a great tool provided free of charge by @neander-squirrel! Head over to the Minnow Power Discord to get reliable, configurable, custom notifications for steemit. This whole adventure would have never been possible without @GINAbots username-mention-notifications!}

_{And in case anyone really doesn't know what the Turing Test is - it's an outdated conceptual test to determine if an AI can pass as a human in a conversation. More on WikiPedia}

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I'm 100% human!

follow @fraenk

... it's free!

_{steem-on and prosper}