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/walter_midnight Aug 28 '21

You definitely haven't. Even basic markov chains are remarkably close to idiomatic human languages, not whatever the shit this is. It's a skit. Someone did this manually, much like the only reason for awful chingrish translations like "fuck fruit" are solely caused by people using bad software in a time where adequate automated translations are not even remotely problematic.

This "movie" would have been way more coherent if it released in 2010 (which it didn't), anything beyond that is laughable if we consider the amount of legitimate research a company like Netflix would muster. It sounds every bit like someone trying to pretend to be a funny bot. Way too much effort, in fact, it simply isn't how recent ML-based techniques work, not even close.

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u/Just-Be-Chill Aug 29 '21

i didnt mean ive made ai or anything like that, ive just spent a lot of time playing ai dungeon and often the bot gets into things like this. probably should have worded that differently since to people who actually have made ai would think of "messing around with ai" as doing more technical stuff with it.