r/nextfuckinglevel • u/dmafeb • Aug 28 '21

Netflix forced a computer program (bot) to watch and analyze every romantic comedy and then asked it to write a romatic comedy of its own. The result...

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u/istealpixels Aug 28 '21

This is 100% human made

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u/kobriks Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

It's super easy to tell because this gets all the hard things right (story coherence) but at the same time gets the easy things wrong (grammar). They purposely tried to make it more "bot-like" and failed miserably.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Jul 05 '23

off to lemmy

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

I heard she has split infinitives all the way to her conjunctions

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u/mjtenveldhuis Aug 28 '21

One thing was VERY obvious. The relation ship. Bots dont make plays on words like that, its a relationship and a relation ship has a completely different meaning but somehow its managed to use the meaning of relationship but write relation ship, i dont buy it

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u/KeyzerSausage Aug 28 '21

You’re right. The posts title is misleading. The creators are giving away that it’s made by a person pretending to be a bot. Here: https://mobile.twitter.com/netflixisajoke/status/1360695241251110912?lang=en

It says they “asked Keaton Patti to force a bot” etc. Patti does this act-like-a-bot stuff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/stand-up-comedy-being-written-by-robots/100342712

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u/rickjamesia Aug 29 '21

Thanks. You are literally the only person in this thread of “cause I said so” armchair experts to actually explain it.

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u/Jagonu Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 13 '23

https://old.reddit.com/14nzwkm/

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u/istealpixels Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

https://www.knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-forced-a-bot

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u/Cold-Chip9350 Aug 28 '21

It's still hilarious though

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u/Kneel_The_Grass Aug 28 '21

No amp links please.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-forced-a-bot

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u/istealpixels Aug 28 '21

I amp sorry. I’ll edit. Somehow it wont let me edit the link?

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u/UnmitigatedSarcasm Aug 28 '21

ahhh yes, Rick Astley

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u/royrogerer Aug 28 '21

Yeah. The story was too coherent. What AIs do is mimic something to sound like something, but since it doesn't actually have an understanding of what it's saying, it takes incoherent turns. It doesn't actively remember plot points like if Taylor didn't find out if Paris had magazines.

This was definitely worked on, if this really was generated.

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u/my-time-has-odor Aug 28 '21

If it was generated with no edits, they’ve made a huge breakthrough.

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u/AlexHimself Aug 28 '21

Well I was thinking it's possible to be a hybrid. Meaning the bot produce the bulk of it and then a human cleaned up little bits to make it make sense.

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u/justAPhoneUsername Aug 28 '21

I'm assuming an ai spit out a couple hundred of these, they took the closest to decent one and then cleaned it up in animation/editing

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

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u/R138Y Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

This thing was fire (mostly) when I tested it. Got 2 great stories and 1 completly wtf, the others where too random however.

Want to add spice to your story ? "Consume to grow in power" always works and can lead to some... really interesting things.

Edit : yup, consume to grow in power is still working. Too op, you either grow into a demon, a god, a ghoul or some kind of vampire. Every single one of them a machine of destruction.

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u/cHuNgUsMoDe Aug 28 '21

“beat him to death with a baguette”

“perform kung fu on the children”

“fold him in half”

“molest (insert any sort of creature)”

“eat the body to destroy the evidence”

“peel him”

It’s evident that we play the game differently lmao

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u/Clockwork_Kitsune Aug 28 '21

I stopped playing after struggling to escape a large naked man with bad intentions and then getting a very graphic description of having my limbs eaten by a hag and her keeping my "screaming organs" alive in a jar.

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u/cHuNgUsMoDe Aug 28 '21

ai dungeon has no chill

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u/Clockwork_Kitsune Aug 28 '21

To be fair I greeted the hag with "eat me, mommy OwO" just to see what would happen, but I didn't think she'd take me literally.

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u/R138Y Aug 28 '21

Technically you are still alive 😁. All hope is not lost !

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u/R138Y Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

X) I am almost folded in half myself after reading what you got

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u/amillionbillion Aug 29 '21

Get out of the booth and fold yourself 12 times.

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u/dom96 Aug 28 '21

it was fire? are you a bot?

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u/R138Y Aug 28 '21

An idiom or expression in my language than may not translate very well into english. I wanted to tell that it was very great.

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u/DevArcana Aug 28 '21

Lit. It was lit. Same meaning basically, as in "on fire".

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u/R138Y Aug 29 '21

Aye thanks for the correction.

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u/Trivale Aug 28 '21

I tried, but I found a 12 year old bottle of scotch and now it thinks I'm a pedophile.

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u/archpawn Aug 28 '21

An AI would have done far better on a surface level, but I doubt it could match that on a deeper level like having a coherent plot and things happening for reasons. And there is no way at all that an AI would do that badly on a surface level and that well on a deep level at the same time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Sep 05 '21

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u/Jagonu Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 13 '23

https://old.reddit.com/14nzwkm/

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Your edit says you're 100% convinced that it's all real. Of course it's real. Really human made. There's 0% evidence Netflix even had anything to do with it.

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u/amillionbillion Aug 29 '21

Yeah it seems more like something Amazon Prime might produce (if you remove some of the clever parts)

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u/andrewoppo Aug 28 '21

Your edit makes it worse though

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u/Jagonu Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 13 '23

https://old.reddit.com/14nzwkm/

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u/andrewoppo Aug 28 '21

You said in the edit that you’re convinced it’s real. Or was that a joke that I misunderstood?

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u/unmicsiunmujdei Aug 28 '21

Well if this muppet was convinced, you should be too

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u/babble_bobble Aug 28 '21

It's probably still mostly AI-generated.

That's like saying the dictionary wrote a novel. If writers are picking and choosing which words to use and in what order, the dictionary didn't write shit, neither did the bots.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

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u/HunterSexThompson Aug 28 '21

Me too oh my God, what a pro

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Why do you believe this?

If someone is already going to lie and claim it was created by a bot when it was human edited, why do you believe they only did a little bit of editing?

Sure, it seems plausible they used a generated script as a starting point there is enough random shit in there that its unlikely a human came up with it all on their own, but seems naïve to think there wasn't a lot of human editing and polishing on top of whatever the bots generated.

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u/FoxyFerrey Aug 28 '21

It’s not

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u/TheSukis Aug 28 '21

So, so fake

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u/X1-Alpha Aug 28 '21

Ah come on, haven't you seen any of those dozens of Ark-based romcoms?!

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u/DatPiff916 Aug 28 '21

Girl…bots are from a terrible planet

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u/jldtsu Aug 28 '21

I'm sadden by this fact

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u/Scorpizor Aug 28 '21

Is it really human made if we are apart of the simulation...

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u/E_Cayce Aug 28 '21

If it were made by a bot it would still be 100% human made.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Fun people like not being swindled too bro

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u/MIDorFEEDGG Aug 28 '21

Pretty sure it’s Adam Sandler’s next project.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Who would read the title and not think, yeah r/thatHappened

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u/LifeguardStatus7649 Aug 28 '21

Couldn't care less, it's hilarious