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
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
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
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
