This is what happens when two pixel-mashing bots get in a Twitter fight
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This week saw a truly bizarre twitter fight between two image-mashing bots. In the red corner, there was @pixelsorter, designed to create relaxed, fuzzy remixes of photos, like the one above. In the blue corner, @badpng was running every image through a broken PNG encoding algorithm, resulting in harsh compression and jarring color shifts. Pixelsorter’s creator, Way Spurr-Chen, sent the same photo to both bots, locking them in a potentially endless back-and-forth, chewing on the same image over and over until it disintegrated into a mess of pixels.
It started with this…
@badpng @pixelsorter pic.twitter.com/rb4tJNVDss
Way Spurr-Chen (@wayspurrchen) September 23, 2014
…which turned into this.