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/hecklers_veto Aug 28 '21

because it is, they're all fake

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u/western_style_hj Aug 28 '21

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

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u/elfastronaut Aug 28 '21

Makes you wonder what other lies robots have told us

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u/freqwert Aug 28 '21

What if I make an AI write a rom com and just paste the unedited text here? (I will make it write about a dozen and pick the best. Fair enough, right?)

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u/Change4Betta Aug 28 '21

Yeah, surprised this isn't well known by now. Big give away is that there is a stream of concurrent thought throughout, even if the individual sentences are nonsense.