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The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I
- aisofteng 9y agoThe moment they mentioned sentiment analysis as a core tool and attaching sentiment to individual words, it became evident that this approach is fundamentally flawed. Their list of most negative words included words like "rape" and "terrorist". Consider a story about a soldier deployed in war who is fighting for his life and then triumphantly says, "I killed the terrorist." Leaving aside politics and considering this as a point in a plot arc, that would be extremely positive - but rated as extremely negative. Another go-to example for me is the sentence "I hope you die" being often rated as "positive" or "hopeful" by sentiment analysis systems. I suspect that this study has deep flaws, and that the graphs of stories meant to demonstrate correlation between story arcs instead illustrate systemic shortcomings of the model.
- commander_Data 9y agoThe six main story arcs: 1. rise 2. fall 3. rise, then fall 4. fall, then rise 5. rise, then fall, then rise 6. fall, then rise, then fall Ladies and gentlemen, it has been my pleasure introducing you the future of Artificial Intelligence. Truly cutting edge. I hope you all have enjoyed this roller coaster of incredible discovery as much as I have.