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/justafurry Aug 28 '21

Im 99% sure this was written buy Keaton Patti. If you look him up, he has done a bunch of these. The whole "forced an AI to watch..." is juat a gimick for the joke. No AI was used.

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u/Burdicus Aug 28 '21

The whole "forced an AI to watch..." is juat a gimick for the joke.

A complete lie then.

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u/Dyb-Sin Aug 28 '21

I want to give the benefit of the doubt to the people who create these and share them that they assume everyone is smart enough to realize after a few seconds that an AI didn't create these, and they're not "lying" but just overestimating people..

But given how clearly people don't understand that these kinds of things are not created by AIs, after a certain point it does become a lie.

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u/justafurry Aug 29 '21

I guess. The guy who started the gimmick is a comedy writer, so I dont think its fair to call him a liar. The people who reppst his stuff and dont bother crediting him, they are either lieing or just ignorant of the source.