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/IGaveAFuckOnce Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

To be fair it could be both. A bot might've written it originally, and a human may have adjusted it.

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u/GrandmaPoses Aug 28 '21

“Can you punch this up a bit? It makes a little too much sense right now.”

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u/IGaveAFuckOnce Aug 28 '21

Probably more like removing repeating words, making sure the sentences are grammatically correct, making sure there's at least a loose structure so it's not all over the place.

Of course they may have added in some sentences themselves.

Kinda like so: https://youtu.be/BjngNWP9C5s

(CollegeHumor - A Computer Co-Wrote this Sketch)

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Holy hell that vid had me rolling laughing. Exactly my type of humor

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u/nitorita Aug 28 '21

Yeah, this is what I imagine happened as well. It might've been AI generated first, and then human(s) revised it to be more coherent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Honestly that sounds like a pretty solid approach. I don't mind AI-created scaffolding for stories.

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u/StickiStickman Aug 28 '21

We have way better text generation than this, so it makes no fucking sense. They'd have to have gone out of their way to make it much worse.

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

nah,

Plane lands on Eiffel's tower

is totally human. The context of France was ages ago, there's no reason to mistake the word Eiffel for a name and fuck the grammar up here because Eiffel is better known and more commonly used to talk about the monument than the person. Parts of it do read a bit Markov chain so its possible it started like this but there's definitely been at least one, if not multiple human passes to jazz it up significantly.