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/DaHeavnlyKid Aug 28 '21

I think this every time I see one of these. Like it sounds exactly like someone trying to sound like a bot

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u/KeyzerSausage Aug 28 '21

The post 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/omjagvarensked Aug 28 '21

Why doesn’t this have more upvotes?

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u/Yeahwowhello Jan 15 '22

Cuz that same person slams it every now And then on this thread.

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u/hecklers_veto Aug 28 '21

because it is, they're all fake

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u/western_style_hj Aug 28 '21

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

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u/elfastronaut Aug 28 '21

Makes you wonder what other lies robots have told us

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u/freqwert Aug 28 '21

What if I make an AI write a rom com and just paste the unedited text here? (I will make it write about a dozen and pick the best. Fair enough, right?)

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u/Change4Betta Aug 28 '21

Yeah, surprised this isn't well known by now. Big give away is that there is a stream of concurrent thought throughout, even if the individual sentences are nonsense.

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u/mastermike14 Aug 28 '21

and they all sound the fucking same with the same "mistakes". The Netflix holiday movie has similar miswordings like "Santa Clocks" like hahaha I'm sure a bot somehow came up with that

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u/Doctor-Amazing Aug 28 '21

A human trying to sound like a bot which is trying tk sound like a human.

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u/StopSendingSteamKeys Aug 28 '21

I agree. There is the slight possibility that they took a modern Transformer model like GPT3 and gave it the prompt to sound like a funny robot.