Horse_ebooks Is Human After All

newyorker: Susan Orlean reveals the truth behind the Twitter account @Horse_ebooks and YouTube channel Pronunciation Book: http://nyr.kr/14DeBop “Both accounts have spawned speculation among the hundreds of thousands of people who have viewed them. Were they really spambots? Were they some slowly unfolding promotion for, say, a new phone or movie? Were they machines testing out a new kind of artificial intelligence? Were they Edward Snowden’s side projects?”

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