What’s the Deal With Algorithms? Your 101 guide to the computer codes that are shaping the ways we live.

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users’ timelines. On ...

Even without the specific help of algorithms, we can see here that it’s perfectly possible to generate formulaic content about the clash between efficiency-minded automatons and the artistic soul.