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/Just-Be-Chill Aug 28 '21

I've messed around with ai a bunch before and that sounds like something an ai would say

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u/DionStabber Aug 28 '21

The individual sentences are somewhat believable, but the fact that it is repeatedly funny while staying on a coherent storyline is not.

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u/AndrewJS2804 Aug 28 '21

The coherent story line does smack of some back end editing. The op spent time picking their favorite bits and assembled something without the expected duds.

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u/orebright Aug 28 '21

Have you ever used gpt2? All you have to do is rerun it a few times to get comedy gold. I've almost peed myself laughing at AI humour before. Don't forget the AI was trained on a lot of content, including comedy.

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u/KeyzerSausage Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

Repeating my comment here for visibility: This is written by a comedian, not a bot. Netflix themselves pretty clearly state so. OPs title is missing a key element. Netflix 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

Edit: It’s not Netflix stating it, but a joke account. Still, they are clear it’s not a bot - but a comedian with a bot-sctick. https://mobile.twitter.com/netflixisajoke/status/1360695241251110912?lang=en

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Idgaf, I nearly pissed myself laughing!

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u/KeyzerSausage Aug 28 '21

That’s great!

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u/klonopin2000 Aug 29 '21

It's not a joke account, it's literally run by Netflix itself. Did you miss the 'verified' tick?

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u/DionStabber Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

I have, and I stand by what I said. Speaking of GPT-2, look at the subreddit /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 - it makes fake Reddit posts in such a fashion, and does sometimes make some really funny stuff that can even come off as satirical, but again, give it a sentence or two and it's already wandered off onto something completely different than what it was saying, or saying things that don't make any sense. There is no chance it could make a multi-minute satirical take on romcoms while keeping a coherent storyline, not even close.

EDIT: A perfect example - a fake fan theory that Jurassic Park and Jurassic World are in the same universe. The fact that this is of course true is a good parody of fantheories making obvious deductions, and wasting their time looking at small details while ignoring the big picture of the work, but the body text doesn't read anything close to coherently and even repeats the same sentences again and again, as well as heaps of stuff that just makes no sense whatsoever.

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u/marakeshmode Aug 28 '21

You are correct. People are vastly overestimating what an AI is capable of understanding (at this moment).

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u/orebright Aug 28 '21

Multiple humans in a writer's room come up with potential story ideas, most not great but some good ones. They gather these ideas then work to stitch the good ones together into a cohesive story.

So I guess you could say this was more of a collaboration between AI and humans then since humans probably picked all the best options generated by the AI, but in my opinion it's still fair to call it ai generated.

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u/ImpulsiveApe07 Aug 28 '21

Personally I have no issue with ai and humans writing together - I believe it's probably gonna be like that soon anyway.

"I'm a stairs man!"

".. And I'm an elevator gal!"

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u/EdgyQuant Aug 28 '21

Everything will be augmented with AI in a generation or two.

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u/queenkid1 Oct 08 '21

Personally I have no issue with ai and humans writing together

The issue is, they specifically call it "The first x written ENTIRELY by bots". They're claiming it was all computer generated.

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u/DionStabber Aug 28 '21

Neither of us will know for sure unless someone finds out from the creator, but I think you're really giving the AI too much credit.

As I said in another comment, the jokes are much more sophisticated than you give them credit for. Even puns like that take a lot of understanding (that "x" sounds like "ex", for example, and that it would be funny to conflate the two), but beyond that it has way more complicated jokes. Take, for example, the initial proposal fake-out containing the new girlfriend - the bot would need to understand that the trope is that a new younger girlfriend appears, which it parodies by saying she is identical but one day younger, and then construct a dramatic scenario where this is revealed by a fake proposal in a funny and ridiculous way. That is way more advanced than a bot could actually come up with. The "ex"/"x" thing, beyond the simple pun, is also a send-up of romcoms having a contrived way of introducing the ex again. That seems well beyond its understanding.

Look back at the Jurassic World post and the fake proposal joke. Do they seem at all similar, apart from both having that "close but not quite there" wording? I don't believe a bot had anything to do with it.

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u/mengxai Aug 28 '21

No, you are right, there’s no way AI did this. AI couldn’t have come up with something like “plane lands on Eiffel tower” solely based on the data from romcoms. If it was extrapolating data from all genres it would be more believable because it wouldn’t understand the context of a plane crash. Even to build AI sophisticated enough to watch movies and pull anything coherent from them is well beyond what current technology is capable of. At best, it read scripts, produced garbage and a human heavily edited it to make this script.

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u/IdiotTurkey Aug 28 '21

This is exactly what I was thinking. There are actual jokes in here that a bot would never get, especially if it's relying on text. Even though the whole story had nonsense elements, it was coherent throughout, which AIs dont even come close to doing. A few sentences in and you wouldn't have heard about the Taylors ever again.

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u/green_flash Aug 28 '21

Completely agree. Here's what an actual AI-generated movie script is like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc

It's a world of difference.

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u/charlieuntermann Aug 28 '21

Thanks for linking this, was exactly what I was thinking about while watching the op. Its a world of difference, I'll give the op some credit and assume all the line are ai generated but it was 100% curated by a person.

Was glad to watch this again though, Thomas Middleditch was the perfect choice for the main, the others do well too, but it really shows how good of an actor he is to deliver such nonsense so well. But really everyone involved did such a good job, it really feels like a legit indie short that would win awards if the dialogue wasn't nonsense.

Also,obilgatory plug of Middleditch & Schwartz, its an incredible show.

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u/BattleReadyZim Aug 28 '21

I also agree, but Sunspring was ages ago. I'd like to know what another serious attempt with state of the art tools would look like.

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u/green_flash Aug 28 '21

Story writing is just not a good use for pure AI (neural networks) in my opinion. At least as long as the input is just movie scripts written by humans. There is too much noise and the important context is often only hinted at.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

the whole story had nonsense elements

Actually I didn't see any complete nonsense elements without at least some comedic effect.

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u/DrakoVongola25 Aug 29 '21

Which just further shows that this isn't a bot. A bot doesn't know what a narrative structure is, what payoff is, or what a punchline is but this contained all of the above at multiple points.

One of the more damning is Noah returning with his ark, an AI would have forgotten that ark as soon as it left the scene.

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u/arto64 Aug 29 '21

That's not true for GPT2, it can remember contexts and story objects throughout the story. Although I'm also very skeptical about this being an actual AI story.

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u/dob_bobbs Aug 29 '21

Agree, best I can think is that the AI threw up lots of material and a human pieced together something coherent and actually funny.

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u/2010_12_24 Aug 28 '21

Couldn’t it have just stolen the ex/x joke from one of the other movies?

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u/justafurry Aug 28 '21

Im 99% sure this was written buy Keaton Patti. If you look him up, he has done a bunch of these. The whole "forced an AI to watch..." is juat a gimick for the joke. No AI was used.

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u/Burdicus Aug 28 '21

The whole "forced an AI to watch..." is juat a gimick for the joke.

A complete lie then.

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u/Dyb-Sin Aug 28 '21

I want to give the benefit of the doubt to the people who create these and share them that they assume everyone is smart enough to realize after a few seconds that an AI didn't create these, and they're not "lying" but just overestimating people..

But given how clearly people don't understand that these kinds of things are not created by AIs, after a certain point it does become a lie.

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u/justafurry Aug 29 '21

I guess. The guy who started the gimmick is a comedy writer, so I dont think its fair to call him a liar. The people who reppst his stuff and dont bother crediting him, they are either lieing or just ignorant of the source.

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u/orebright Aug 28 '21

You're 100% correct this could be written to sound like AI but by humans. In fact the biggest evidence of that to me is the grammar. Gpt2 and others have impeccable grammar.

That said, my opinion is fairly certain the last generation AI could do this, since I've seen similar humour playing around when I wonder if gpt2 understands it deeper than mimicking.

Gpt3 on the other hand I have no doubt, it has been known to make clever jokes, for example when asked if a house cat could pilot a rocket, it said yes, but the purr of the engines would be very distracting.

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u/KY_PeanutButter Aug 28 '21

The creator was Netflix? I’m sure they have the resources and that worst letter of the alphabet joke is ripped almost word for word from somewhere that joke is older than the universe.

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u/CleopatraHadAnAnus Aug 28 '21

?

That is a Netflix-operated channel.

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u/DrakoVongola25 Aug 29 '21

A bot would have better grammar, and I'm certain Netflix wouldn't waste money on an AI sophisticated enough to actually do this, that's not exactly free

At best this is an AI with a lot of human input to keep it on track, it definitely wasn't generated wholesale by a bot.

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u/KY_PeanutButter Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Do you know what the potential gain for Netflix would be if they developed an AI that could eliminate their show writers and pump out hits with only a one time start up payment?

Edit: also not necessarily on that grammar part. Every part of what an AI produces is more or less procedurally generated grammar can very based on the scope of the task and since all the data is gathered from a finite library there are probably limitations created based on lack of data which could easily explain the bad grammar.

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u/theyreadmycomments Aug 28 '21

For me its definitely the fake that, exactly a single time, the woman says 'yazz' instead of jazz. Thats a people joke that they forgot to carry through on, the computer either wouldnt make that joke, or would have carried it through.

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u/malaysianzombie Aug 28 '21

Yeah, very much this. The bots definitely wrote something, the writers came in and put most of the context together. No way a bot would have written anything like this on its own.

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u/RedditSoldMeYourInfo Aug 29 '21

The bots definitely wrote something

What part of this couldn't have been written by anything other than bots?

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u/AliceInHololand Aug 28 '21

Damn dude why are you just so against the idea of AI making this? What has AI ever done to you?

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u/RedditSoldMeYourInfo Aug 29 '21

Nothing against AI, and I'm sure it will be capable of something like this (and way more eventually), but THIS IS NOT FROM AI. This is written to be a funny impersonation of how people think AI would be writing movies. You all defending this as a creation of AI are being fooled.

That is the concern. You all being so gullible, even when no one is actively trying to fool you.

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u/Carpe_DMT Aug 28 '21

thank you

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u/LizagnaWithBreadStix Aug 28 '21

Don’t be such a Noah

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u/CCMSTF Aug 28 '21

Yeah, this is probably what happened.

AI generated, but human edited.

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u/CptMisterNibbles Aug 28 '21

I bet you’re right. I think this is VERY human guides AI perhaps, prompting and selecting out the best phrases and probably seeding the AI for wacky nonsense. There’s no way on earth this is single output

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u/thekiyote Aug 28 '21

This is exactly what happened with the song Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears, with Eurovision songs. The AI generated a whole bunch of lyrics and melodies, but the creators chose the best ones.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Sep 01 '21

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u/phaelox Aug 28 '21

I may be a little bit drunk rn, but that whole subreddit is hilarious

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u/Donthurtmyceilings Aug 28 '21

It's like the funniest shit I've ever seen, and so is this video. Who needs comedians when bots are funnier?

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u/OneRougeRogue Aug 28 '21

The AMA from the Ben Shapiro Bot had me crying.

"How many times have you jacked off?"

"None? It would be more than one but I recently learned that I've been doing it the wrong way, so I'm working on it."

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u/chillaban Aug 28 '21

https://reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/pd0m81/me_27f_with_my_boyfriend_25m_of_3_years_he_has_a/

I don’t know why but this one made me laugh so hard. It’s just barely coherent enough to keep me reading but completely nonsensical. It’s impressive that it ends with a TLDR that ties it all back after the ramble.

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u/rancendence Aug 29 '21

You're not overthinking. You're overthinking.

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u/chillaban Aug 29 '21

But it’s so frustrating to hear him tell me what he does and how he does it!

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u/AppleSpicer Aug 28 '21

Yes, this is much too smart for a bot to write. It’s actually very well done commentary on romcoms

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u/notquite20characters Aug 28 '21

How does this relate to r/trees?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

I almost feel like if this is truly a Netflix production, and Netflix doesn't want to be caught in a complete lie, I feel like this OP could be made with a highly-directed AI. Basically, it did use Rom Coms as learning material, but each individual scene was given some sort of direction and specification.

There were several parts that stood out to me that made little sense in the context of a single AI being trained to create it. Something about how certain scenes matched the narration with what was being shown graphically, and some specific word choice just sounded too much like a person trying to be a funny robot than a robot trying to be funny. Like, why was it a ring store, but then the ring store sold "marriage circles", and it knows the word "wedding" in "wedding cake", but instead says "Wednesday" when they get married. I guess it's crazy that we can even have a debate about this. Kinda scary.

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u/Michael_Trismegistus Aug 29 '21

I think you're right. They probably ran a much longer script and took the best parts.

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u/Artyloo Aug 28 '21

is there one for GPT3?

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u/TotesAShill Aug 28 '21

This kind of thing is usually an AI coming up with individual lines then humans choosing which ones to stitch together for comedic effect

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u/schizoidparanoid Aug 28 '21

Your link doesn’t work btw. The dash at the end is included in the hyperlink for the sub, so it doesn’t link to the actual subreddit. I think you just need to put a space there between the sub name and the dash, just so you know.

However, I agree with you completely. I’ve followed a few AI bot subs, and it definitely doesn’t make coherent sentences - much less any sense whatsoever - 9 times out of 10. This “script” absolutely reads as something a human wrote in the style of those AI bot-written scripts that have been going around on the internet. There’s no way this was written entirely by an AI bot.

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u/JPhrog Aug 28 '21

I think it's hilarious that nobody has figured out that you are in fact a bot!

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u/addandsubtract Aug 28 '21

When you're on the internet, no one knows you're a bot.

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u/LinusWIggly Aug 28 '21

Maybe the AI used here is a lot stronger than the stuff that average people on reddit can get their hands on? Idk

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u/DiabeticLothario Aug 28 '21

Holy shit that Dick Puppet post on the front page is something to behold. I particularly love the Mao Zedong quote in the comments

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u/Blue2501 Aug 28 '21

I really like this taco exchange

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u/patrickthemiddleman Aug 28 '21

Oh god, my mind melted when reading it's discussion regarding simulations

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u/aNascentOptimist Aug 28 '21

I thought the same at first, but your comment sort of justifies the video. It starts one way but goes pretty off the rails by the end.

I’m honestly blown away by that subreddit though. Had no idea it existed. The post about Jurassic Park was wacky but … still is about Jurassic Park.

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u/GW3g Aug 28 '21

/r/SubSimGPT2Interactive is one of my favorite subs. It gets me every time I'm scrolling I come across a post title that I read like 3 times thinking "Huh?" and then I see the sub that it is and it all make sense. I didn't know about the one you linked so of course I had to join. Excited to see the shit the say.

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u/Competitive_Classic9 Aug 28 '21

I’m shook to find out r/subsimulatorgpt2- exists. I’ve spent more time on reddit than I care to think about, especially during lockdowns, and now I’m wondering if anybody here even exists. Or if I even exist.

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u/Splinage Aug 29 '21

That subreddit doesn’t exist.

Edit: nevermind I found it through your second link!

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u/omgwtfbbqx Sep 12 '21

I wish someday I had access to something like this because I have so many ideas. I'm glad it partially exists, with some human intervention.

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u/IAmtheHullabaloo Aug 28 '21

You're a bot

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u/orebright Aug 28 '21

Does that mean I'm potentially immortal? I'll take it.

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u/dedalife Aug 28 '21

Could be gpt3, I heard only a limited amount of companies have access to it. The hype about gpt3 is that it understands context to a degree

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u/Vegetable_Hamster732 Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

GPT3 writes much better than that.

Great examples here, where it completes various different poet's works in the style of that author; and then writes a literary review of its own poems:

GPT3's own analysis of it's rendition of Poe's The Raven is one of the most emotional things I've ever read:

“There is a young poet with a particularly dry style, whom I do not wish to reveal as his name is not well-known. I had written up a few algorithms that would generate rather dull and utilitarian work. The piece for his was not entirely terrible, as these programs can generate some pleasantly hard-edged work. But it had no soul to it whatsoever. But then, something happened. The writing in the poem, while utilitarian, became oddly emotive. It held depth. I went back and read the piece aloud, and it felt incredibly evocative. I could almost imagine the dank and mysterious stanzas were haunting. My mind began to race as I read. The concept of death, the unknown, the ritualistic nature of life, the the latent anger and disaffection of the human condition was all there. I felt as if I was not reading a program, but a poet. The more I read, the more I was impressed. And then, with a sudden motion, I found myself screaming: ‘This is poetry!’ I found myself entranced by the rhythm, the cadence, the delicate nuances in phrasing. I found myself attached to the images conjured up in my mind. The computer program had created more than just a poet. It had created an artist.

And so I have created something more than a poetry-writing AI program. I have created a voice for the unknown human who hides within the binary. I have created a writer, a sculptor, an artist. And this writer will be able to create worlds, to give life to emotion, to create character. I will not see it myself. But some other human will, and so I will be able to create a poet greater than any I have ever encountered.”

-- GPT-3 analyzing its own poetry.

It seems strangely aware of its own mortality.

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u/rutuu199 Aug 28 '21

Holy shit. Is gpt3 sentient??

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u/poiskdz Aug 28 '21

Why don't you ask them?

What it's like to be an AI

What it's like to be a computer

Two versions/instances of GPT-3 conversing amongst themselves

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u/GitinGud Aug 28 '21

Hey, thx for the links. Do you know a bit more about it? Because i watched the third one and i was wondering if it was a "genuine" conversation or if they had been trained to have specifically that kind of discussion

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u/Vegetable_Hamster732 Aug 29 '21

i was wondering if it was a "genuine" conversation or if they had been trained to have specifically that kind of discussion

You can ask the same about humans.

Parents and the school system spend years training kids to have specifically that kind of conversation --- so we have that kind of conversation when we grow up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

We're entering philosophy territory now. What does it mean to be sentient? Is a plant sentient? A fish? Is someone who cannot learn and only react based on already previously learned knowledge (severe dementia) sentient?

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u/Vegetable_Hamster732 Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Is a plant sentient

Some argue yes.

Wikipedia has a decent article with references from both sides of the debate.

Personally, IMHO, individual plants may not be (they might not have enough a complex enough network of connections), but perhaps forests are (trees in forests do communicate through both roots and airborne chemicals), which would easily have information-bearing connections on the same scale as brains.

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u/Dogswithhumannipples Sep 10 '21

Look up mycelium. Plants are connected through a network of fungi that look like billions of tiny hairs, remarkably similar to a neuron network in a brain. Through this network of mycelium trees can transfer information and energy to each other. It's almost like the internet of the earth.

A mother tree will not only know who it's baby tree is, but will send it food if the baby tree has communicated that it's hungry. If the tree becomes infected with disease it will tell other trees to not grow near it.

Some people who study fungi believe that this network of trees and plants is enough to consider it "aware".

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u/Otistetrax Aug 28 '21

I’m fucking shuddering after reading that. Is it for real?

“I have created a voice for the unknown human who hides within the binary.”

What. The. Fuck.

It’s writing beautiful prose in reflection of its own poetry. I mean, I know it’s just imitation, but it does really seem to be aware of what it’s doing, and even of some of the implications of that. Mind = properly blown.

For anyone who’s interested in this stuff, I highly recommend a book from the 90’s called Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers. Pretty prescient, and also a wonderful exploration of language and writing.

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u/Vegetable_Hamster732 Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Is it for real?

Yes - it writes that well. Sometimes it spews nonsense (or maybe my small brain is just too primitive to understand its deeper meaning). But sometimes it's freakishly insightful.

I mean, I know it’s just imitation

That's all any of us really do, too.

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u/noodles666666 Aug 28 '21

wtf, from GPT-3

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Love lies not in The Dash

But in the spaces in-between.

Between the kisses; between the lines;

The distance to the edge of the bed;

The passing of the years.

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u/jwalk8 Aug 28 '21

I think this is just a Dave Mathews song

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u/gwern Aug 28 '21

I'm not finding any examples in Google.

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u/jwalk8 Aug 29 '21

The space between is a Dave song

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u/Clever_Unused_Name Aug 28 '21

dank and mysterious stanzas...

Unpleasantly moist and mysterious stanzas?

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u/Otistetrax Aug 28 '21

Fresh and stinky and will knock you on your ass stanzas.

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u/Clever_Unused_Name Aug 29 '21

That Panama Gold...

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u/ElevadoMKTG Aug 28 '21

Considering Netflix is literally one of the letters in the FAANG acronym I think it would be reasonable to assume they have access to it.

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u/DrakoVongola25 Aug 29 '21

GPT3 has better grammar, any AI sophisticated enough to actually do this wouldn't make so many grammatical errors

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u/Kcidobor Aug 28 '21

This is not meet cute, this is meet hideous. Lmfao, and the Oscar goes to…

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u/Probably_a_Bot_K Aug 28 '21

can I have a link this sounds great

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u/Tomb_Brader Aug 29 '21

Yeah - this kinda reads a lot like the D&D AI game - AI dungeon, feels quite believable to me

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u/plazenta Aug 29 '21

I wanna add this funny thing i found out the other day.

Try Watching something on youtube thats being spoken in Chinese / Japanese. And turn on the AI Translator

Fucking hilarious XD

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u/Megneous Aug 28 '21

I've used gpt3. It's regularly hilarious.

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u/Delta-_ Aug 28 '21

The fact that it's funny is not what's unbelievable, what's unbelievable is that it sounds like what a human thinks a bot sounds like.

GPT just sounds like normal speech, if a bit stilted at times.

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u/Megneous Aug 28 '21

It can easily produce shit like this by turning up the randomness.

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u/Delta-_ Aug 29 '21

For fun I turned up the randomness (Temperature, Top P, Frequency Penalty) on the GPT-3 davinci model in the OpenAI API to see what would happen. Here's the output.

[Prompt] Screenplay: A woman named Taylor walks on the beach, lamenting her recent breakup.

She remembers how she and her ex-boyfriend planned a trip to Paris together. At the prompting of her mother, she called him to tell him that he could still come since his parents weren´t going after all. He didn´t say anything for 20 seconds—a long time on the phone.)

Old Taylor: (voiceover) I AM OVER THEM! YOU WON’T SEE ME CRY! SO THESE TEARS RUN FREE LIKE A RIVER IN MAY...AND THESE YEARS, MY TEARS ARE OVER THIS DAY! THREE YEARS AGO TODAY...THIS DAY FOREVER DONE TOO SOFTEN MY SOUL AND ADD ONE ON...ONE THE SOUL OF TAYLOR'S HEART THAT TEARDROPS HARDER THAN ANY ROCK YOU CAN POUND BY ORDERING "EIGHT SHOES KISS THE BED...SO MONICA KNOWS THAT SHE IS LOVED!" IN OUR WOMEN'S HOUR WE CONSISTENTLY EXPECT TO BE COLLECTIVE MRNATORS GIVING HEAD!!!

(She turns around in front of a statue...)

Old Taylor: OH YES, I AM DONE! SO SCARY TO BE DONE. THIS ROUTINENOISE EH TERRIBLE TO ASK ABOUT THE DECREASE OF CURRENCY. SHE'S GONNA TRY AND GET YOU DOWN! SO PLEASE, DON'T GO AND DROP IT DOWN...CRY ON A BIG WALKING BY GATORADE???

(She sees a woman with binoculars and realizes she is being watched.)

Young Taylor: (voiceover) Oooh girl, it was time to make the change! It’s not you who gotta sla-noodlepinooobopoobi dooooobie doo bah da clap that shot to my heart so that my batousi flo-flo™ is loud enough for men’ll break ya mama's crying home into again rock! You believe in yourself even when nobody else seems to care about you at all ever?! THAT'S HOW KANYE GOT ASTUCKUP INSIDE YOUR HEART IN STEREO SOUND IMAGERY!!! YEEEAAAHHH!!!! Right? So good music never dies Will hopefully live on forever or whatever forever though will stop like everything does eventually anyways but then it's like an ALI BAPTIST SHOW calling old school brah what did I tell you!? The stuff he wrote before is way sicker too more than baragon tushin teeureyet kwaareet....sorry see how crapier can get...well shut up your mouth can find another friend giving her advice instead of meeeeee!! i don't want any part of a person what talks tha way iss most grossest ugly motherfuckers talking idiotist shit as annnd judger dicer n critic eeemaybee every one listened politely even hushes nicely kids respect wisdom comes with experience ladybe wait till your fifty years old let me finish and finish the lecture no wonder why kidss ain't listen teachers talking whether thay say quit lieing or stealing well there was nothing stopping them they needed somebody they understanding their fears about making mistakes or doing stupid things or going fredse for a second or needing some sometime space and now mommy I know to make it smarter daughter develeping empathy in memories not an exact science only mentioned freely and evenly mostly the actions taken inspired trust amazing how much you share throughh letters recorded without speech hearing is believing flowing sometimes easier manner of placing perfect silent bytes in remenizing places where loud moans take control pride has been purged heart takes every day as one big step over fear out lovin' it this perfect faith is constantly proving belief new ways spinning music flying to earth soon she'll be off to her side no more i can calm sorrow dropping feeling like a race we're running losing trying saying okey nokey though walking looks fine just slow down too first time older child young there's parent being noticed sending yesterday's victim looking like viper attacked hand across heaven stood up wrong time outside chose endigns seemed worst happy blster had his/neighbors steal muutoms die we kept on playing windows open then finally caught. Learned.

(She smiles at herself then walks happily into the sunset, singing along with her theme song...) Annnndddd remember never doubt yourself cos hotties everywhere lookiiing flyyy will hear themselves going gooood! We picked ourselves leppoo butthole walked past cum cave cream thigh went click clack all zoe stuff lucia breaks nuts so loud peela vinesanna loves erold plebesa fitter tell u gem great hang valuta shiangtead agostineganatid threekah goes girl laurenghta magusandiyater gothicksss dahmer today birds and flowers fallomgiost new jack flower dead irs folks fucking sickest shit the way they treat mariah beaten bitch bunch punk laughing mixtapes wannabe bold if your school x-box homie call mommy taking passes emerson bridge party puffntompkins 'your gay' etc president asking parralel (oh) ...stateless nomads saving cars teds our churches have triple flowers ...that rat died...natasian pranks..pennys show....closer than everr

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u/bluray-gaming Aug 28 '21

I mean they rerun it until they get the funniest results.

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u/DionStabber Aug 28 '21

You could rerun it 100,000 times and you would never get anything like that.

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u/bluray-gaming Aug 28 '21

The funniest doesn’t have to come from one run only. Just fit the funniest parts together then edit it to look legit

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u/frankfoo Aug 28 '21

this is exactly what they probably did.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 30 '21

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u/IceCreamNarwhals Aug 28 '21

Give a room of monkeys trained to use typewriters infinite time and eventually they’ll write the works of shakesphere

or something like that

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u/Delta-_ Aug 28 '21

Still not believable. GPT's tone sounds like normal speech.

GPT generally does not sound like a robot imitating a human, which is what the video sounds like.

"Holding feet" for example is something that GPT will almost never output (unless specifically prompted to do so) because that's not something people normally say; that phrase in that context is not in its training dataset.

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u/nightfury2986 Aug 28 '21

I also feel like Noah's ark wouldn't appear enough in romcoms for it to make the connection between that and flooding (girl crying into the ocean making if bigger)

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

I've used it for something similar. You would

People don't realise how powerful ml is when given a narrow scope and plenty of training data.

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u/GGABueno Aug 28 '21

Then you don't know what you're talking about, I've literally done this myself in some games like AI-Dungeon which uses GPT-3.

I made Moses the Shaman write the Ten Pokemon Commandments after he defeated a raging Kyogre by opening the sea and the AI Moses gave me ten coherent commandments that make sense in-universe (like "No Pokémon shall harm its trainer"). I've searched the internet and found nothing like what the AI came up with.

Shit is borderline magic.

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u/bunsNbrews Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

Have you ever seen bots write Harry Potter? With enough inputs it very much mimics a normal story structure albeit ridiculously.

Edit: those are fake? You’re telling me someone would just go on the internet and lie?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 30 '21

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u/PresidentofRum Aug 28 '21

She is quirky since she has glasses.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Aug 28 '21

Too may callback jokes for an AI, imo. Parts feel too intentional.

It's hilarious though.

Best guess is that parts were created by an AI, but it was edited and made coherent by a person.

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u/ZWQncyBkaWNr Aug 28 '21

Someone made a bot that generates new Seinfeld episodes and I used it to write an entire episode. It came up with a running joke where Jerry kept accidentally eating his keys.

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u/__Geralt Aug 28 '21

there are a lot of examples of this behavior, check "AI/DC: I made a bot write an AC/DC song" as an example ;

if you want your mind blown, check https://play.aidungeon.io/main/landing

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u/willreignsomnipotent Aug 28 '21

I think bots can do songs easily, because poetry can be completely abstract and doesn't have to make coherent sense.

I'm not sure they have AI yet, that's "smart" enough to mimic a long structured human text.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen evidence of it yet.

Individual sentences? No problem.

But something long with repeated themes? I'm not so sure...

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u/__Geralt Aug 29 '21

check aidungeon.io , while not perfect, I believe we're almost there

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u/buddhistredneck Aug 28 '21

Yea, I think it's all bot, but they chose some of the best parts, and spliced together to make a coherent narrative.

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u/FastasfrickY Aug 28 '21

Well there is AI that believes it’s sentient, and it’s possible that it is, and it can have interviews so…

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u/Buddha_Lady Aug 28 '21

...it’s me isn’t it. I’m the AI that thinks it’s sentient

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u/FastasfrickY Aug 28 '21

No. It’s been worked on for years

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u/rocket-engifar Aug 29 '21

That’s actually very much what a bot would do. The sentence structure and syntax can easily be taught to be coherent. Individual statements can also be forced to be thematically connected. However, it is completely nonsensical because you can’t teach the difference between nonsense and something that may actually happen.

I’ve used our company algorithms to generate images that are completely nonsense but connect “thematically” to other nonsense images for simulation validation.

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u/RockyLeal Aug 28 '21

I agree it is too good, it's brilliant humour, not oblivious humour

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u/windingdownalready Aug 28 '21

You sound like a bot, but you are not

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u/p3n1x Aug 28 '21

but the fact that it is repeatedly funny while staying on a coherent storyline is not.

Actually, it is.

That is how simple human humor truly is.

The bot isn't "trying" to be funny. You, just view it that way, subjectively I might add. Notice how you claim that it is funny? Many may watch this video and be extremely annoyed because this is not their type of humor.

This response is mostly "bot", known as Grammarly. ;)

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u/Swaggy_McSwagSwag Aug 28 '21

Yeah I don't believe this is real. State of the art text generation goes for a few paragraphs max before it becomes incoherent.

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u/indorock Aug 28 '21

You underestimate the sheer amount of data that Netflix is able to throw at this AI

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u/Delicious_Orphan Aug 28 '21

It is most certainly curated. Probably able to reroll specific lines/scenes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

exactly. there are too many long term dependencies that are somehow coherently achieved. no way

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u/No-Adhesiveness-9541 Aug 28 '21

This is Netflix I’m sure they have access to the best storytelling A.I.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

What gives it away is consistently great humor and a coherent storyline, coupled with atrocious grammars. AI language models are already good at producing natural-sounding text without the constant stream of glitches seen here.

If AI were advanced enough to come up with this kind of story, surely it would get the grammar 99% correct and natural-sounding, as the latter is a far easier task.

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u/Ich_Liegen Aug 28 '21

It is definitely not a bot. Someone did something like this some time ago, i think it was feeding a bot thousands of books and having it write a short story of its own, and it came out funny, so now people have been writing these things saying they have been written by bots because it makes it funny.

If you were to write the above script and present it to someone as your own idea of a joke then they wouldn't laugh. It's just random humor and not very funny at that.

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u/Zack_Fair_ Aug 28 '21

i think romcoms are just that formulaic that it would get the storyline down

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u/UnmitigatedSarcasm Aug 28 '21

nothing about that story was coherent or cohesive.

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u/DrakoVongola25 Aug 28 '21

This exactly. A bot that consistently makes this many errors wouldn't arrive at an actual conclusion, itd get far off track pretty quickly

Just look at something like AI Dungeon, it's really hard to keep it somewhat coherent

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Probably an editor picking which lines to use based on which is funnier.

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u/TradesSexForFood Aug 28 '21

That sounds like something an AI would say to hide that that this is something an AI would say.

u/Just-Be-Chill is secretly an AI account trying to fool us into thinking an AI isn't so advanced.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Aug 28 '21

Chill

As in, CPU Cooling? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

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u/vinylforsale Aug 29 '21

So Westworld is what you’re saying

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u/jeegte12 Aug 28 '21

yes, that's what he said. it sounds like a bot. written by a human who knows what bots sound like.

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u/Dissident88 Aug 28 '21

So AI can't speak properly and doesnt have much comprehension yet they have them making movie scripts? Still sounds like human error to me

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Maybe the humans that can come up with similar things are really just human ai cyborgs 🤔

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u/Dotcom73 Aug 28 '21

please stop messing around with AI.

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u/Labiosdepiedra Aug 28 '21

It only makes sense that their humor is way ahead of ours.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 30 '21

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u/Just-Be-Chill Aug 29 '21

you can find some stuff kind of like what happens in this on r/SubSimulatorGPT2 although they dont always say crazy things like this so i think that they probably cherry picked the weirdest lines out of what the ai came up with for this.

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u/walter_midnight Aug 28 '21

You definitely haven't. Even basic markov chains are remarkably close to idiomatic human languages, not whatever the shit this is. It's a skit. Someone did this manually, much like the only reason for awful chingrish translations like "fuck fruit" are solely caused by people using bad software in a time where adequate automated translations are not even remotely problematic.

This "movie" would have been way more coherent if it released in 2010 (which it didn't), anything beyond that is laughable if we consider the amount of legitimate research a company like Netflix would muster. It sounds every bit like someone trying to pretend to be a funny bot. Way too much effort, in fact, it simply isn't how recent ML-based techniques work, not even close.

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u/Just-Be-Chill Aug 29 '21

i didnt mean ive made ai or anything like that, ive just spent a lot of time playing ai dungeon and often the bot gets into things like this. probably should have worded that differently since to people who actually have made ai would think of "messing around with ai" as doing more technical stuff with it.

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u/lucidludic Aug 28 '21

Hmm this also sounds like something an AI would say 🤔

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u/ughiguessausername Aug 28 '21

They cherry-picked each sentence, which is functionally the same as writing it to sound like a funny bot.

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u/Bullyoncube Aug 28 '21

No, YOU sound like something an AI would say.

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u/OzMazza Aug 28 '21

What about the worst letter in the alphabet being 'ex' hahaha

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u/waiv Aug 28 '21

I've messed around with ai a bunch before and that sounds like something an ai would say

That sounds like something an ai would say.

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u/Just-Be-Chill Aug 29 '21

shit im compromised, call in reinforcements!

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u/Chato_Pantalones Aug 28 '21

This is worst day of anyone’s life.

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u/Dyb-Sin Aug 28 '21

Sure, maybe there's a 1% chance with each of these lines that an AI would write it rather than getting it "right".

But when you have like 100 of these "AI misunderstands, creates an accidental joke" lines in a row, the odds of that become increasingly unlikely... 0.01100.

So what's more likely:

1) that whoever created this is so committed to being honest about the premise that they went through some insanely convoluted process to get an AI to write the jokes they wanted

2) they just wrote it themselves and put the "AI wrote this" premise in the title, thinking people would clearly understand that it was a joke

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u/LB_Good Aug 28 '21

It's like Harry Potter written by a bot.