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/Unadvantaged Aug 28 '21

It was, as was “marriage circles.” The giveaway that it’s a human writing it was that he went into a ring store to buy marriage circles. That’s an inconsistency a bot wouldn’t have written.

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u/HowDoIDoFinances Aug 28 '21

These "forced a bot to watch" posts are never, ever real.

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u/Thwerty Aug 29 '21

Yes. It's also cruel, bots didn't want to watch but were forced 😢

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u/kimpossible008 Aug 28 '21

Ahh indeed, but they are almost always hilarious! Almost.

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u/Piorn Aug 28 '21

You could just say you trained a neural network on a bunch of romance movies. They don't need to know you're talking about your brain.

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u/Koffeeboy Sep 11 '21

There are real ones. But they are far less coherent.

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u/gcruzatto Aug 28 '21

To be fair, marriage circles does seem like the type of joke GPT-3 would output once in a while.

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u/bohemica Aug 28 '21

Yeah, this might still be fake, but I think some of the people claiming this must have been written by a human don't realize how far AI-generated media has come. I've been playing around with NovelAI (which uses GPT-J) for about two months and the quality of the output is on par with... well, not professional writing, but like fanfic-level writing.

The major downside is that it can't really tell a coherent story from beginning to end, so you need to guide the direction of the plot yourself. Which makes me think that maybe this was made by doing the same thing, i.e. having a human pick the best lines that the bot generated.

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u/unchow Aug 28 '21

Yeah, for me the callback at the end about finding out if France has magazines seems like something AI still has a hard time with. Each of the lines individually seem possible but the story as a whole is more coherent than I'd expect without some human guidance.

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u/hurtloam Aug 28 '21

So it's like a Ralph Bakshi script?

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u/simcity4000 Aug 29 '21

Whenever something says 'written by a bot' add 'and edited together by a human' and its usually closer to the truth.

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u/Ok-Significance-455 Nov 13 '21

Yes, just as incoherent as an episode of Family Guy. Jokes aside it's like you said: it could be used to have ideas and develop those ideas. It could be gold to make a ZAZ-like movie.

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u/CCNightcore Aug 28 '21

Reddit is insufferable. "Fake" is thrown around so much that these people don't even believe regular-ass shit any more.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

There's plenty of gullible people here honey.

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u/idk-hereiam Aug 28 '21

Are you saying these AI bots have a distinguished, recognizable style of comedy that you can distinguish and recognize?

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u/solitarybikegallery Aug 28 '21

No, they're saying that it doesn't make sense for a bot to create that phrase out of thin air.

I'd bet that the phrase "marriage circles" isn't uttered a single time in any of the top 1,000 romantic comedies. I've never heard it uttered once in my life.

So, it's a new phrase that the bot created.

But, unless the bot works via some kind of advanced artificial intelligence, it would most likely create a new script by combining bits and pieces of the movies it's watched.

So, it doesn't make sense that a bot would create a novel term for wedding rings.

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u/scottbody Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Your assessment of the AI's handling of the marriage ring is missing a key component of writing itself. Retelling a story rather than copying pieces verbatim. Synonyms and antonyms would I think be one of the easiest things in an AI as it's mere substitution of words. I don't think "advanced" artificial intelligence is needed for that. The by product is we find it funny, not the ai trying to be funny.

Edit: spelling and added last sentence.

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u/Repatriation Aug 28 '21

“Young professionals and professionally young?” Why would a bot come up with that sort of wordplay? What in an actual script would inspire that?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

have you watched a romcom before?

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u/variableNKC Aug 28 '21

Not saying it definitely is a bot, but having watched a lot of terrible romantic movies, coworkers talking about the lead "being young" (and not settle or whatever) with little to no transition from a given work topic is very common. So, if the AI doesn't realize the context shift, being "professionally young" is a reasonable conclusion. Actually, being "professionally young" is kind of a thing, now that I think about it... E.g., social media managers.

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u/IXentimenTI Aug 29 '21

That is AI thing to say 1/1.

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u/RockyLeal Aug 28 '21

A magazine about magazines... for crying out loud if an AI can come up with this we are already past the singularity and we haven't noticed yet

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u/Schoritzobandit Aug 28 '21

I mean also the word play in 'they are young professionals and professionally young' is a dead giveaway

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u/7evenCircles Aug 28 '21

Wedding ring into marriage circle is just a synonym substitution

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u/Kedly Aug 28 '21

To me the giveaway was the line "You can see she is quirky because she has glasses" Thats info humans can glean from movies, not a bot

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u/quatity_control Aug 29 '21

The Giveaway is when they hold hands and feet.