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Challenges in using bot computation to ethics of the Web – By Aditya Abeysinghe Respecting users A web ethic that is commonly maintained is respecting users. Respecting each user by others during meetings, informal communication, and formal communication is often maintained to ensure that each party is not disrespected and insulted. By respecting others, qualities of communication and human qualities are enhanced which may cause better information to be exchanged. However, bots (chatbots and other bot types) used for websites and web-based apps have little to no intelligence on how to respect users as they just transfer data between two ends and use trained models based on machine learning and other analysis techniques. Some bots may improve how they exchange data during communication by learning and updating their inner model used. However, emotional qualities of bots are few compared to that of humans. This has been one disadvantage of bots ...