Re: She owed us so many poems.

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It's funny enough that I have my suspicions about it actually being bot generated.


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 2:26 PM
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"Avid collector of dust" also seems cleverer than you'd think for random generation. But I did laugh hard when I first saw it on Twitter.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 2:28 PM
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None of those bot-generated jokes are real!


Posted by: Disingenuous Bastard | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 2:35 PM
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This makes me want to vacuum.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 2:37 PM
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I don't want to be judged by robots when I die.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 2:56 PM
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Or before, but at least then I have time to respond.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 4:12 PM
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That's from a book called "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book", which was not actually written by a bot. Sorry.


Posted by: Anonymous | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 4:48 PM
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That's from a book called "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book", which was not actually written by a bot. Sorry.


Posted by: Anonymous | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 4:48 PM
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That's from a book called "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book", which was not actually written by a bot. Sorry.


Posted by: Anonymous | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 4:48 PM
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"She owed us so many poems" is quite poetic, something one might say of poet who died young.
I remember doing this kind of artificial text generation in the 1960s. A friend of mine was a fan of Lewis Carroll. He trained it, as we'd say now, on a some Sylvie and Bruno and a few works more familiar. The human mind is a wonder. It was hard to tell what was computer generated and what was from the original corpus.


Posted by: Kaleberg | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 6:32 PM
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It occurred to me that it might be fake. The photo is also hilarious to me, with the extra eyes and all.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 09-11-21 8:54 PM
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I didn't notice that before you said.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-12-21 6:06 AM
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New Turing test just dropped


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 09-12-21 8:21 AM
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I feel like if we didn't know about the book, the combination of weird text and weird photo would have been a clue. Someone messing around naively with a text generator would probably not be doing the same with a photo generator simultaneously.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 09-12-21 3:16 PM
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I didn't know about the book, and I still suspected it was phony. But I don't know that I think it's more funny for being a bot. If Steve Martin delivered this eulogy in The Jerk, I would have laughed.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 09-13-21 7:41 AM
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I take heebie's posts humorously, but not literally.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 09-13-21 10:09 AM
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