| Non-human social media accounts |
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| Spammy social media accounts |
USA Today |
24 May 2025 |
| Fake social media users |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Apr 2025 |
| Automatons, briefly |
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| Amazon nuisances |
New York Times |
21 Feb 2025 |
| Some imitative software |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Nonhuman Opponents |
USA Today |
28 Dec 2024 |
| Autonomous programs on the Internet (4) |
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| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Nov 2024 |
| NPCs, in slang |
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| Makers of spam |
Universal |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Spam spewers |
New York Times |
24 Jun 2024 |
| Sources of much spam |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
22 Jun 2024 |
| They post spam online |
USA Today |
13 Jun 2024 |
| Spam programs |
Commuter |
21 May 2024 |
| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Mar 2024 |
| Fake online followers |
New York Times |
02 Mar 2024 |
| Nonhumans that quickly buy up concert tickets |
LA Times Daily |
10 Feb 2024 |
| Wall-E and R2-D2, for short |
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| Web-crawling apps |
Newsday |
01 Aug 2023 |
| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Nov 2022 |
| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Oct 2022 |
| Automated blog posters |
USA Today |
02 Oct 2022 |
| Some Twitter trolls |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jun 2022 |
| Automated social media accounts |
USA Today |
17 May 2022 |
| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Mar 2022 |
| Automated Twitter posters |
USA Today |
17 Mar 2022 |
| Some spammers |
LA Times Daily |
26 Feb 2022 |
| Some spammers |
The Washington Post |
26 Feb 2022 |
| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Feb 2022 |
| Some spam producers |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Nov 2021 |
| Web page scrapers |
The Washington Post Sunday |
14 Nov 2021 |
| Web prowlers |
Newsday |
08 Oct 2021 |
| High-tech workers |
The Washington Post |
19 Sep 2021 |
| High-tech workers |
LA Times Daily |
19 Sep 2021 |
| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Aug 2021 |
| Sources of much spam |
The Washington Post |
16 Aug 2021 |
| Sources of much spam |
LA Times Daily |
16 Aug 2021 |
| Software programs that perform tasks, for short |
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| Programs that may send spam |
USA Today |
30 Jul 2021 |
| Automated video game opponents |
USA Today |
24 Jul 2021 |
| Twitter hijackers |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Apr 2021 |
| Autonomous software programs |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Oct 2020 |
| Droids, for example |
USA Today |
08 Oct 2020 |
| Automatons, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Oct 2020 |
| Spammers, often |
The Washington Post |
29 Sep 2020 |
| Spammers, often |
LA Times Daily |
29 Sep 2020 |
| Spam spewers |
New York Times |
27 Sep 2020 |
| Sources of much spam |
New York Times |
14 Sep 2020 |
| Web-crawling software |
Newsday |
16 Aug 2020 |
| Automated programs |
Jonesin |
16 Jun 2020 |
| Fake Twitter followers |
Universal |
25 May 2020 |
| Automated programs |
USA Today |
19 Feb 2020 |
| Chatroom spammers |
LA Times Daily |
07 Feb 2020 |
| Chatroom spammers |
The Washington Post |
07 Feb 2020 |
| Mechanical men, briefly |
Family Time |
06 Jan 2020 |
| High-tech workers |
The Washington Post |
08 Dec 2019 |
| High-tech workers |
LA Times Daily |
08 Dec 2019 |
| Some spammers |
LA Times Daily |
10 Oct 2019 |
| Some spammers |
The Washington Post |
10 Oct 2019 |
| Droids and such |
New York Times |
24 Aug 2019 |
| Web crawlers, e.g |
USA Today |
27 Jul 2019 |
| Internet crawlers |
USA Today |
10 Apr 2019 |
| Droids and such |
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| Internet crawlers |
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| Web crawlers, e.g. |
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| Some spammers |
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| Automated-task performers |
Universal |
27 Aug 2018 |
| Web crawlers |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Aug 2018 |
| Automated systems |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Mar 2018 |
| Automated-task performers |
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| Web crawlers |
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| Many spam senders |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Dec 2017 |
| Automated programs |
Universal |
28 Oct 2017 |
| Web crawlers, e.g |
Universal |
12 Sep 2017 |
| Texas State team |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Jun 2017 |
| Computer-controlled players, in gaming lingo |
New York Times |
19 Mar 2017 |
| Some spam senders |
The Washington Post |
01 Feb 2017 |
| Computer-controlled players, in gaming lingo |
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| Automated programs |
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| Web crawlers, e.g. |
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| Internet prowlers |
USA Today |
07 Nov 2016 |
| Automated task runners on the Internet |
The Washington Post |
16 Aug 2016 |
| High-tech workers |
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| Droids |
New York Times |
20 Oct 2015 |
| Automated programs |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Aug 2015 |
| Web crawlers, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jun 2015 |
| Droids |
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| Web crawlers, e.g. |
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| Web crawlers |
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| Droids |
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| Some spam senders |
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| Automatons |
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| Some modern viruses and worms |
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| Internet prowlers |
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| Computerized video-game opponents |
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| Automated-task performers |
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| Mechanical men, briefly |
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| Automated-task performers on the Net |
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| Nonhuman co-hosts of TV's "Mystery Science Theater 3000" |
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| Software programs that do automated tasks |
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| Web crawlers |
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| High-tech workers |
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| Scroungers, in Sydney |
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| Spam producers |
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