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  • 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
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