"Real People Are Turning Their Accounts Into Bots On Instagram — And Cashing In": https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/people-are-turning-their-accounts-into-bots-on-instagram - As predicted here, "Botnets will be the quintessential art-form of the 2020s."
The term of the day: "automated engagement trading groups".
The logic of botnet users is very clear
"From blocking to botnet - Censorship isn't the only problem with China's new Internet blocking software" (2009): http://www.socialsignal.com/blog/rob-cottingham/censorship-isnt-only-problem-with-chinas-new-internet-blocking-software #Bots #Politics #AGB
The Truth, Post-Truth & Nothing Like The Truth - A brilliant presentation by @erocdrahs, covering algoculture, machine-mediated-reality, AI, bots, deepfakes, and operation mindfuck.
The AI ArtDAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) - as outlined by @trentmc0 in https://www.slideshare.net/TrentMcConaghy/tokens-complex-systems-and-nature
Sheldon County is a procedurally generated podcast about life in a simulated American county that inhabits your listening device, with just a single listener: you. It is made by James Ryan (www.jamesryan.world). Podcast coming in 2019 but you can listen to some proof-of-concept episodes online already: #Generative #Music #AGB
Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the (Youtube) Algorithm
Finger Family Videos:
Toy Channels are Ruining Society"
"Something is Wrong on the Internet":
https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
Random Darknet Shopper is an automated online shopping bot with a budget of $100/w: https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/ #AGB
Autonomous Generative Business (#AGB)
