AI-ish website: transforms a long text into a shorter humorous 'mash-up'
June 17, 2020 1:49 PM   Subscribe

Good Ai-ish website or program in which one can input a long text and it will produce a shorter humorous or unusual 'mash-up' from it

Looking for a good Ai-ish website or program in which one can input a long text--for example, something novella length--from which it will produce a shorter text 'mash-up' (preferably one chooses the length, in this case just one to several paragraphs) that is humorous or interesting, likely by picking up on the most common phrases and syntax and combining them unusually.

Years ago there used to be Apps like this on Facebook (before they were removed due to privacy breaches), like 'X Bot,' which would scan everything one ever wrote on the site and turn it into comical passages or poems. Surely much progress has been made since then. Although a primitive one might actually work best

Thank you!
posted by cotesdurhone to Computers & Internet (5 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Not sure if you’re looking for something more sensical, but this page does sort of what you want: link

“Markov chain text generator” is a good search term if you want to find more like this.
posted by mekily at 7:07 PM on June 17, 2020 [1 favorite]


This comes to mind.
posted by degoao at 8:18 PM on June 17, 2020


Response by poster: @mekily It's a little challenging to explain... the text is reduced to any length one wishes (for example), a few paragraphs, and is disordered in a weird, funny, AI-logicish way. Like 'colorful green dreams sleep furiously,' or 'Brel's lyrics seem more than others; such lack of authenticity, human perceptions are both good. I know some of the people getting places like that. When one looks at fourth sight. But it wasn't meant to be.' That sort of thing.

Anyone know of any other relevant search terms?
posted by cotesdurhone at 7:21 AM on June 18, 2020


Response by poster: Actually found info on the original App I was thinking of: https://slate.com/technology/2013/11/what-would-i-say-app-turns-you-into-a-facebook-bot.html

“Technically speaking, it trains a Markov Bot based on mixture model of bigram and unigram probabilities derived from your past post history.”

The key here is to find one trained to produce humorous AI-ish logic turns of phrase, rather than just scrambling the text prosaically.
posted by cotesdurhone at 7:30 AM on June 18, 2020


Markov generators are old news. The state of the art in text generation is GPT-3. You could also try searching for its predecessor, GPT-2, which has been freely available since last year.
posted by obvious at 12:14 PM on June 18, 2020


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