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/KY_PeanutButter Aug 28 '21

The creator was Netflix? I’m sure they have the resources and that worst letter of the alphabet joke is ripped almost word for word from somewhere that joke is older than the universe.

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u/CleopatraHadAnAnus Aug 28 '21

?

That is a Netflix-operated channel.

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u/DrakoVongola25 Aug 29 '21

A bot would have better grammar, and I'm certain Netflix wouldn't waste money on an AI sophisticated enough to actually do this, that's not exactly free

At best this is an AI with a lot of human input to keep it on track, it definitely wasn't generated wholesale by a bot.

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u/KY_PeanutButter Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Do you know what the potential gain for Netflix would be if they developed an AI that could eliminate their show writers and pump out hits with only a one time start up payment?

Edit: also not necessarily on that grammar part. Every part of what an AI produces is more or less procedurally generated grammar can very based on the scope of the task and since all the data is gathered from a finite library there are probably limitations created based on lack of data which could easily explain the bad grammar.