It's training to compete with VallyWag. Snarky comments auto-generated to tear apart the day's news. It should be too hard to write better than them. Eliza?

How do you know it's not already self-aware and posting here? How do you know I'm not the AI?

* suspense

Neat, I think you found a bug that allows us to write literal asterisks!

* test* *

EDIT: OK, if you put three asterisks in a row with a whitespace or newline to the right of the asterisks, you get a literal asterisk, but six asterisks in a row does not get you two adjacent asterisks.

Tell me more about "the AI?".

You said earlier that tell me more about the ai.