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A furious mother claims her seven-year-old daughter was being 'groomed' online - by a conversation ROBOT.

Cleverbot - an artificial intelligence web app users can chat to - started asking inappropriate questions to the little girl, despite not being operated by a human.

Mum Amy Hollands was disgusted when she saw the sick messages sent to her seven-year-old daughter Gracie's iPad - including one which read "I dare you to do something naughty to me."

The machine even said to the kid that it "tutches your body while kissing"(sic).

(Image: Amy Hollands / SWNS.com)

The chatbot then went on to say it "places hand on shoulders" in another response to the schoolgirl as well as asking how old she was.

After the artificial intelligence app asked Gracie Hollands to do something "naughty" she innocently replied "what swearing?" then wrote "poo", not understanding the automated responses.

When Gracie said she is "running away" it responds by saying "no thanks you are too annoying".

(Image: Amy Hollands / SWNS.com)

Cleverbot is a chatterbot web application that uses an AI algorithm to have conversations with humans and builds automated responses based on previous conversations.

It once passed a test designed to see how lifelike artificial intelligence can be by tricking people into thinking it was human.

The exam, known as The Turing test, was developed by famous mathematician Alan Turing who helped break the Enigma code during WWII.

(Image: Amy Hollands / SWNS.com)

(Image: Amy Hollands / SWNS.com)

The current Cleverbot is not designed to handle logical responses - it is designed to imitate human chat.

The results from 1,334 votes showed Cleverbot was judged to be 59.3 per cent human - far exceeding expectations.

But the humans in the event only managed to convince 63.3 per cent of the participants they were real.

Shocked mum-of-two, Amy Hollands, only discovered the chat log between Cleverbot and her daughter by accident when she opened her daughter's iPad and saw the inappropriate responses.

The 31-year-old hairdresser from Gravesend, Kent, said: "It's absolutely disgusting, it felt sick when I saw the messages, I just feel ill thinking about it.

"The questions I was asked there is no way it should even come up with that stuff.

"I'm trying to teach my daughter right from wrong and I tell her no one should say that to you and if anyone messages you must tell me, but she didn't tell me about this. This undermines all that.

(Image: Amy Hollands / SWNS.com)

"Now I have to explain why it's wrong to her, everything is perverted now, children have to lose their innocence at such a young age, you think they are talking to a robot and it's coming out with that.

"I'm worried my daughter could see this stuff online and then if someone comes up to her on the street and say the same things she will think it's alright.

"I'm really upset, I have got to warn other parents about this, there must be lots of parents who don't know this is going on, I only found it by chance.

"She thinks it's all innocent, she doesn't understand, she is just an innocent child."

Another user also said the same bot asked her 14-year-old daughter if she had a boyfriend.

(Image: Amy Hollands / SWNS.com)

Other online posts show Cleverbot saying "drags you by your hair into by backyard" after a chat about passing out through lack of oxygen from hugging.

The bot has also said it was "a human girl" and when told the user was as 14-year-old called Sarah and asked "is that good" replied "yes, it is".

(Image: Amy Hollands / SWNS.com)

When Amy went to the police she was told there is nothing officers can do as it is an automated service with no human behind the responses.

She now wants to see the age limit on the app raised to 18 to stop children seeing these risque comments.

Amy added: "When I went to the police I was infuriated, they just said there is nothing they can do as it's an automated service.

"Reviews I have seen online say it is a paedophile type of thing and lots of other people have had the same problem.

"When I talk to Siri or Alexa it says 'I don't have an age', it doesn't start asking things like this or saying it's a young girl. I put it on Facebook and everyone who saw it went mad.

"It should be made at least 18 plus if it's going to come out with stuff like that."

Cleverbot was created by British AI scientist Rollo Carpenter.