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The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I
- RichardHeart 10y agoThis is quite stupid: ". They collected computer-generated story arcs for nearly 2,000 works of fiction, classifying each into one of six core types of narratives (based on what happens to the protagonist): 1. Rags to Riches (rise) 2. Riches to Rags (fall) 3. Man in a Hole (fall then rise) 4. Icarus (rise then fall) 5. Cinderella (rise then fall then rise) 6. Oedipus (fall then rise then fall)" If "up" and "down" are your only "emotions" and you only have 3 slots they can go in.... 3x2=6. What's losing one thing but gaining another called in this convolution? All models are lies, some are useful. This is not useful.
- jjaredsimpson 10y agoThis is not what they did. You should read the preprint not the pop-sci summary if you want to make a criticism. The narratives were "discovered" through the analysis not the other way around.
- Neliquat 10y agoSo all the data is just appearance frequency of positive and negative connotation words with no contextual clues other than order... yeah, this is not good science.
- thedailymail 10y agoLitotes would be a good adversarial challenge to this algorithm.