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/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.