Project Proposal

Title: autocompleteness Summary: I’m going to write a poem exploring how autocomplete and similar bots affect human expression. Autocomplete is based on statistics. Based on what you have written already it calculates what you are most likely to write next. Of course not everyone lives at the center of this statistical distribution. By deferring to what is most common it implicitly disadvantages someone who is writing something atypical. Furthermore, as humans rely on bots more and more to write, this statistical software does more cause inconvenience; it makes it actually harder to express thoughts that aren’t typical. Well at least it could, in theory. Keywords: Bots, Poetry, Generative Details: The idea is to write a poem where part of each line is written and the rest is generated by autocomplete. The story told by the written part will diverge from what the autocomplete tells if taken at face value.