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Hahah, I was thinking something a lot simpler than that. Something more like 'Insert subject:' -> fetch recent article about subject -> You give your thoughts about that subject -> you get a 'reply' that's like "Your opinions are wrong because <basic common argument pattern using keyword(from reply)>" or "That sounds interesting. Could you elaborate more on <keyword(from reply)>?"

And then when they're done they could export it to a text editor of their choice, or save it to dropbox or something.

I once made a chat app in Flash a long time ago called Mimic, that would take in whatever you said, infer connections between words (based entirely on what words were next to other words, so you could use just about any language or slang you wanted), and then build a sentence off that in response, that would almost kind of make sense. I would a good hour or more at a time responding to that thing trying to train it and getting a kick at the silly things it said.

This would be kind of like that. Yes, it'd be a pretty dumb app, but I could see myself being entertained by it, so maybe it'd be entertaining to other people as well.