language after the writing machine

There’s a dark side to procedural generation. A way to use it for evil rather than good. Spambots.

everest pipkin was recently on an Indiecade panel with some other developers, each talking about something that matters. In this case, spambots.

As it turns out, spambots have a lot to say about language, human interaction, and living in the age of machines that talk to machines. The accidental poetry that attempts to evade the robotic guardians at our gates ends up creating dadaist juxtapositions that mean more to us than they intended.

https://medium.com/@everestpipkin/language-after-the-writing-machine-f3bff4f73408