In a universe slowly sinking into entropy, writing can take the disordered pieces of our experience and fit their edges together into something organized. If the work of a writer is to tease out meaning from the tangled mess of life, many of these algorithms essentially do the opposite, taking meaningful human posts or experiences and reducing them to their barest reportable facts.
At Lit Hub, Abi Inman looks at the possible uprising of literary-minded Twitter bots. Once machines can write as well as us, will human authors and journalists be necessary?
