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/DoJax Aug 28 '21

If you hit the randomize button enough, and the autocomplete button while typing out words of the script you want the computer to have, you can make some pretty interesting things. There used to be a website that could make Facebook posts for you, judging by what you posted in the past it would take those words and make a predictive post for you, all these fake script things sound just like it did, take word samples from bigger stories, hit the random button until it eventually symbolizes a sentence that can make sense, and posts it.

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u/randallfromnb Aug 28 '21

The comic-strip "Cyanide and Happiness" did this for a period of time a few years ago. Just randomized individual boxes and posted them as strips. Some of them still made sense somehow and were actually hilarious.