Dezeen Bot List generates fake design discussions as “a comment on commenting”



A group of design graduates and coders have created a spoof version of Dezeen that uses artificial intelligence to write comments about projects.

Dezeen Bot List was launched last month during Milan design week as part of Design Academy Eindhoven’s presentation, which explored the influence of digital media on design.

“We created a comment on commenting,” the designers told Dezeen. “The contrast between Dezeen’s highly curated articles and the uncontrolled, blunt and often vicious users’ comments sporadically sparked our interest.”

Dezeen Bot List works by generating comments about images taken from Dezeen, which are selected by visitors to the site. It uses artificial intelligence to combine words and phrases from genuine comments on Dezeen stories.

The bot reads the comments aloud as it types them, creating an often nonsensical design discussion.

Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/05/04/design-academy-eindhoven-bot-list-generates-fake-design-discussions-milan-design-week/

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