I forced a bot to read over 1,000 papers from open-access journals and then asked it to write a paper of its own. Here is the result. Or: A quasi-materialist approah to bot-mimicry

The article develops an approach for close reading of auto-generative writingagents (i.e. bots). It introduces the concept of bot-mimicry (a practice ofwriting in a bot-esque style), and argues that bot-mimicry inherently entailsthat reader and writer alike imagine a conceptual (fictional) bot which couldhave written the text. As such, it investigates the concept as a fruitful way ofengaging with cultural, aesthetic and political conceptions and imaginariessurrounding bots. Furthermore, and through an example reading of the “OliveGarden tweet”, the paper develops, introduces and applies a quasi-materialistapproach, where seemingly immaterial elements such as implicit conceptualbots are considered through a framework inspired by materialist mediatheory from the fields of software studies, media archaeology, and electronicliterature.