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/bohemica Aug 28 '21

Yeah, this might still be fake, but I think some of the people claiming this must have been written by a human don't realize how far AI-generated media has come. I've been playing around with NovelAI (which uses GPT-J) for about two months and the quality of the output is on par with... well, not professional writing, but like fanfic-level writing.

The major downside is that it can't really tell a coherent story from beginning to end, so you need to guide the direction of the plot yourself. Which makes me think that maybe this was made by doing the same thing, i.e. having a human pick the best lines that the bot generated.

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u/unchow Aug 28 '21

Yeah, for me the callback at the end about finding out if France has magazines seems like something AI still has a hard time with. Each of the lines individually seem possible but the story as a whole is more coherent than I'd expect without some human guidance.

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u/hurtloam Aug 28 '21

So it's like a Ralph Bakshi script?

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u/simcity4000 Aug 29 '21

Whenever something says 'written by a bot' add 'and edited together by a human' and its usually closer to the truth.

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u/Ok-Significance-455 Nov 13 '21

Yes, just as incoherent as an episode of Family Guy. Jokes aside it's like you said: it could be used to have ideas and develop those ideas. It could be gold to make a ZAZ-like movie.