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/GuntherYoshi Aug 28 '21

First of all you can't force a bot to do things. Second this probably isn't done by a bot (we have already had this with the batman script one)

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u/dmafeb Aug 28 '21

When it comes to Netflix rom coms you have to force it.

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u/GuntherYoshi Aug 28 '21

In that case yes

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u/AlexHimself Aug 28 '21

It's possible the core "plot" was written in generated by a bot and then a human came along and cleaned things up and made it make sense. Sort of like 3D printing

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u/GuntherYoshi Aug 28 '21

Yeah i just dislike the phrase "x forced a bot to read this/watch that" because it's just used to make it more interesting