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 |
LA Times Daily |
19 Sep 2021 |
High-tech workers |
The Washington Post |
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 |
LA Times Daily |
29 Sep 2020 |
Spammers, often |
The Washington Post |
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 |
The Washington Post |
07 Feb 2020 |
Chatroom spammers |
LA Times Daily |
07 Feb 2020 |
Mechanical men, briefly |
Family Time |
06 Jan 2020 |
High-tech workers |
LA Times Daily |
08 Dec 2019 |
High-tech workers |
The Washington Post |
08 Dec 2019 |
Some spammers |
The Washington Post |
10 Oct 2019 |
Some spammers |
LA Times Daily |
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 |
Some spammers |
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Internet crawlers |
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Web crawlers, e.g. |
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Droids and such |
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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 |
Web crawlers |
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Automated-task performers |
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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 |
Automated programs |
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Computer-controlled players, in gaming lingo |
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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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Droids |
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Web crawlers |
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Automatons |
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Some modern viruses and worms |
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Some spam senders |
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Internet prowlers |
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Automated-task performers |
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Computerized video-game opponents |
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Mechanical men, briefly |
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Automated-task performers on the Net |
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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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Nonhuman co-hosts of TV's "Mystery Science Theater 3000" |
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Scroungers, in Sydney |
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Spam producers |
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