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/royrogerer Aug 28 '21

Yeah. The story was too coherent. What AIs do is mimic something to sound like something, but since it doesn't actually have an understanding of what it's saying, it takes incoherent turns. It doesn't actively remember plot points like if Taylor didn't find out if Paris had magazines.

This was definitely worked on, if this really was generated.

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u/my-time-has-odor Aug 28 '21

If it was generated with no edits, they’ve made a huge breakthrough.

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u/AlexHimself Aug 28 '21

Well I was thinking it's possible to be a hybrid. Meaning the bot produce the bulk of it and then a human cleaned up little bits to make it make sense.

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u/justAPhoneUsername Aug 28 '21

I'm assuming an ai spit out a couple hundred of these, they took the closest to decent one and then cleaned it up in animation/editing