According to the New York Times, “a shocking amount of what we’re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms.”

Really? I had no idea.

I understand that spam bots generate a lot of web content that ends up going into filters and never sees the light of day. But I was surprised by the amount of real, quality writing that’s actually generated by computers and their fancy algorithms.

Here’s an example from a quiz on the Times’ site: