Spambots

Spambots explores questions around AI and industrial farming. AI is increasingly used to generate spam content. Spambots explores what would happen if, instead, machine learning was used to empower a group of robotic Spam cans to tell their tales. Each Spambot has a small keyboard with four letters on it and when they collaborate they are able type the whole alphabet along with some punctuation. The text they are typing is generated by a neural network fine tuned on a version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World where occasional words have been swapped out for pig-related ones. In this novel each character is born into a caste in much the same way industrial farm animals, such as those that end up in Spam, are born into their fate.