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I can assure you that there were a lot of art pieces that were created and defended by hand.
How can you assure that?
It was simply 100+ of us who told each others "alright, I'm protecting the pixel at xxx,yyy" and clicked that pixel all day all night.
Is the dataset published anywhere?
Yeah, less collaborative art, and more a competition between bots. In the beginning (and for some of the smaller subreddits), it was people building art. But for the most recognizable pieces, there were simply hundreds of bots enforcing a provided image.
To me, it's not more bot-created than a modern protest movement might be said to be Android- or Google- or Apple-created -- they are the extensions used to manifest a human will based on the combined creativity and values :)
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Which is interesting in itself. You seem to think that the bot usage took away from the overall importance of the effort. I'm not sure I agree.
I don't disagree that it's still interesting (if a bit boring after the first few frames of an animated representation of the progress). But a piece of art created by a few dozen people with machines, when compared to the expectation that a piece of art was created by a couple hundred thousand people by hand; well, it just doesn't have the same impact.
EDIT: speaking of which, I wonder if reddit could use some of the data from this to detect sockpuppet network on reddit... I imagine communities of a certain type might have engaged (or not) with this phenomenon in a very different way than others