doom Stop doomscrolling and scroll through Doom Rob Beschizza

bots The Dead-Internet Theory: most content creators and consumers are A.I. bots Mark Frauenfelder

typefaces Bot posts picks from the Library of Congress's expanded map collection Rob Beschizza

Twitter bots This Twitter bot will colorize your black and white photos Mark Frauenfelder

takedown requests Adobe goes ballistic over a tweet linking to a 27-year-old version of Acrobat Reader Mark Frauenfelder

flame wars This bot turns Reddit arguments into videos of animated courtroom dramas Mark Frauenfelder

artbots Text this number with the name of a musical artist, and an AI responds with lyrics written in that style Thom Dunn

mcflurry Someone programmed a bot to order thousands of McSundaes every 30 minutes to find out which machines are broken. Thom Dunn

here we are now entertain us NirvanA.I.: This bot wrote a Nirvana song David Pescovitz

florida male News plagiarism sites run real stories through thesaurus to avoid detection, to hilarious effect Rob Beschizza

airhelp A service to help airline passengers get compensated for lost bags, delays, cancellations and overbookings Cory Doctorow

antisocial media Algorithmic anti-semitism and computational propaganda David Pescovitz

human-competitive tasks A bot has been finding bugs and submitting patches for them, successfully masquerading as a human Cory Doctorow

customer satisfaction Survey: corporate execs vastly overestimate customers' satisfaction Cory Doctorow

commons based peer-production A machine learning system trained on scholarly journals could correct Wikipedia's gendered under-representation problem Cory Doctorow

2048 Cool HOWTO on creating an AI to play 2048 Andrea James

bots On the psychological value of "griefbots" Clive Thompson

No purchase necessary enter as often as you want DoNotPay bot launches a cheap airline ticket that automates the nearly impossible business of getting refunds when prices fall Cory Doctorow

propaganda The future of computational propaganda Mark Frauenfelder

Gordon's Alive?? Tweet-bot shares Prince Vultan's greatest hits Jason Weisberger