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This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist

107 points by kristintynski 7y ago

reificator 7y ago
> Her Instagram Stories include one that depicts her while wearing a yellow dress and champagne flute (I don’t like to see bridesmaids getting wrecked).
- jcims 7y ago
  > But an eight-month-old story with a tiny paragraph about a building draped in chainmail or a photograph of a koi pond with a barcode on it?
gregoryexe 7y ago
I imagine HN is an AI promoting other AI's, which in turn..
stingraycharles 7y ago
This is extremely scary, it would totally convince me this is written by a real person. Any publications on what technologies are used for this?
- baq 7y ago
  https://grover.allenai.org/ https://grover.allenai.org/
komali2 7y ago
Holy fuck that was mostly convincing. I had no idea AI generated text was getting to this level - I thought we were still at "Her mouth is full of Secret Soup" level: https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1006961202998726665 https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1006961202998726665
- ajna91 7y ago
  If you want to be more blown away. (warning some comments may be NSFW) An entire subreddit where every poster/commenter is a GPT-2 bot. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
  - jakear 7y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c2gt4g/cmv_being_a_black_man_is_a_bad_deal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c2gt4g/cm... Quite coherent indeed. The comments too, even has the concept of replies.
  - c0nducktr 7y ago
    You weren't exaggerating. Some of these are amazing. > "Don't tell me where I've been": US man who claims to have "never left the country" Not only is it a convincing sentence, it's humorous too.
    - lowdose 7y ago
      What a gold nugget!
  - topynate 7y ago
    "I can't stand my dog." might be the funniest thing I've read all week. "The law is always on your side. You're not in danger. You do have the right to hate the dog. It's not the end of the world. It's like a cat that got a kitten and is biting its owner. Your dog is not safe. I am glad you have a dog, but it's not the end of the world. If you want to kill your dog, go ahead. It's not going to be easy, but you can do it. I promise." https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c29unc/i_cant_stand_my_dog/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c29unc/i_...
  - Udik 7y ago
    My favourite so far: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c21dmv/guys_im_designing_a_time_machine_this_weekend_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c21dmv/gu...
- wlesieutre 7y ago
  That's not actually a bot though, is it? Reads a lot more like a person pretending to be a bot. I'd expect a bot to be more nonsensical in stupid ways instead of funny ways.
  - mgbennet 7y ago
    The account that posted it belongs to a comedy writer, so yeah, almost certainly not made by a bot. Still funny as hell though.
    - wlesieutre 7y ago
      Phew, I was wondering what sort of training data would have it talking about secret soup
- czr 7y ago
  As a reminder, the Olive Garden thing is a joke, not the result of any actual AI. https://iforcedabot.com/ https://iforcedabot.com/ is a fun site with some demos of what text-generation can actually do these days.
  - komali2 7y ago
    Thank you for this, the office and I are losing our minds over the AI generated riddles: https://iforcedabot.com/my-best-friend-is-a-monkey-terrible-neural-network-riddles#28415 https://iforcedabot.com/my-best-friend-is-a-monkey-terrible-...
QuackingJimbo 7y ago
I was ready to crap on this post for calling your own work "semi-convincing" but this writing does actually resemble most of the random blogs I find when trying to research something like nutrition or fitness. Not a compliment to the quality of the writing. But definitely not unconvincing. Add some ads that make it impossible to scroll without freezing Chrome and you're good to go.
scottndecker 7y ago
Someone didn't provision enough throughput...I'm getting a 508 status
- kristintynski 7y ago
  working on it... sorry!
xwdv 7y ago
I suggest not reading the generated article. Trying to comprehend what you are reading does not feel good in the brain, and doing it long term may severely impact your reading comprehension skills and can make reading into an exhausting activity. It’s not the same as trying to understand sentences with bad grammar, at least those texts represent a human trying to express an idea, so you know with enough effort you can eventually come to understand what they are trying to say and maybe score a dopamine hit. In this case, no amount of effort will bring meaning to AI generated jibberish.
plibither8 7y ago
A few more... * Person: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ * Waifu: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ * SO Question: https://stackroboflow.com/ https://stackroboflow.com/ * Startup: https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/ * Resume: https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/ https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/
- ainar-g 7y ago
  The Waifu one is so realistic that it's uncanny. It's almost like we're just a few years away from whole seasons of deep-dreamt anime and whole tankoubons of procedurally generated manga.
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    It's going in the wrong direction. Sure, it can conjure up a random picture of a face. But for purposes or manga/anime building, it's near useless, as it can't generate that face in multiple perspectives, or with different kinds of facial expressions. This Waifu truly does not exist - neither in prior publications, nor in the algorithm itself.
    - jcims 7y ago
      Not directly but there are other networks that can do those parts.
      - TeMPOraL 7y ago
        I'd like to learn more. Anything you could link to?
        jcims 7y ago
        https://youtu.be/p1b5aiTrGzY https://youtu.be/p1b5aiTrGzY One shot training examples at 4:23
    - 7y ago
topynate 7y ago
I see that the posts aren't generated in real time. Were they curated? Even if these are just the top 5%, they're still extremely impressive.
lettergram 7y ago
First, I feel this is a hand curated list of results (same with most of the "this does not exist" stuff). That being said it is very good. Pretty funny quotes: > You might not think that a mumford brush would be a good filter for an Insta story. They are definitely leaking some of their training data. Many of the names in the article are real people (which is concerning). Working on synthetic data generation myself[1], this is not at all surprising. It's also why we are basically living in a "post-truth" world... https://austingwalters.com/the-last-free-generation/ https://austingwalters.com/the-last-free-generation/ What do you do when anything can be synthetically created? [1] https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily-need-data-for-data-science-48d7bf503074 https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...
- kristintynski 7y ago
  It is curated, but not heavily. I usually took the first result of the prompt. Occasionally i'd skip a result that was totally off, but all of them were the best out of the first 2-3 for any given prompt.
naeemtee 7y ago
Anyone know of any open source libraries that are even remotely close in quality/effectiveness as Grover AI?
- gwern 7y ago
  Grover is open source. They open sourced it the other day.
  - bbmario 7y ago
    Does it come with any samples on how to use it? Like, how to train, how to generate after training, etc.
    - gwern 7y ago
      Eh, sort of: https://github.com/rowanz/grover https://github.com/rowanz/grover It can't be that difficult if OP did it so quickly, after all. If you want much more detailed documentation, I wrote up in detail how to train & generate text with the original GPT-2 models using nshepperd's codebase: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 minimaxr also has a actively maintained codebase which I believe has powered some of the GPT-2 projects you might've seen recently like Talk to Transformer: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
      - bbmario 7y ago
        Thank you so much!
cabaalis 7y ago
Knowing we have a future of ai generated content coming, I think about staring at the lights that make humans docile so their brains can be stolen in the movie "Skyline."
deleted 7y ago
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sdinsn 7y ago
Ironically, this marketing blog does exist: > About This Blog > This was created by the Content Marketing agency Frac.tl as a demonstration This is just an ad.
JamesBarney 7y ago
I don't know if this says more about the how far AI has come or the average quality of a marketing blog.
numtel 7y ago
Disappointed that I didn't see a new generation upon refresh...
kashishhora 7y ago
I made a site to aggregate the other "This ____ does not exist" sites that have popped up: thisxdoesnotexist.com
bbmario 7y ago
Content generation like this is fascinating. I had a lot of fun with markov chains in the past, but this is just groundbreaking. Any tips for a fellow developer that wants to start with this? How do I get started with GPT2 or Grover?

107 points by kristintynski 7y ago

> Her Instagram Stories include one that depicts her while wearing a yellow dress and champagne flute (I don’t like to see bridesmaids getting wrecked).

jcims 7y ago
> But an eight-month-old story with a tiny paragraph about a building draped in chainmail or a photograph of a koi pond with a barcode on it?

gregoryexe 7y ago

I imagine HN is an AI promoting other AI's, which in turn..

stingraycharles 7y ago

This is extremely scary, it would totally convince me this is written by a real person. Any publications on what technologies are used for this?

baq 7y ago
https://grover.allenai.org/ https://grover.allenai.org/

komali2 7y ago

Holy fuck that was mostly convincing. I had no idea AI generated text was getting to this level - I thought we were still at "Her mouth is full of Secret Soup" level: https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1006961202998726665 https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1006961202998726665

ajna91 7y ago
If you want to be more blown away. (warning some comments may be NSFW) An entire subreddit where every poster/commenter is a GPT-2 bot. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- jakear 7y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c2gt4g/cmv_being_a_black_man_is_a_bad_deal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c2gt4g/cm... Quite coherent indeed. The comments too, even has the concept of replies.
- c0nducktr 7y ago
  You weren't exaggerating. Some of these are amazing. > "Don't tell me where I've been": US man who claims to have "never left the country" Not only is it a convincing sentence, it's humorous too.
  - lowdose 7y ago
    What a gold nugget!
- topynate 7y ago
  "I can't stand my dog." might be the funniest thing I've read all week. "The law is always on your side. You're not in danger. You do have the right to hate the dog. It's not the end of the world. It's like a cat that got a kitten and is biting its owner. Your dog is not safe. I am glad you have a dog, but it's not the end of the world. If you want to kill your dog, go ahead. It's not going to be easy, but you can do it. I promise." https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c29unc/i_cant_stand_my_dog/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c29unc/i_...
- Udik 7y ago
  My favourite so far: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c21dmv/guys_im_designing_a_time_machine_this_weekend_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c21dmv/gu...
wlesieutre 7y ago
That's not actually a bot though, is it? Reads a lot more like a person pretending to be a bot. I'd expect a bot to be more nonsensical in stupid ways instead of funny ways.
- mgbennet 7y ago
  The account that posted it belongs to a comedy writer, so yeah, almost certainly not made by a bot. Still funny as hell though.
  - wlesieutre 7y ago
    Phew, I was wondering what sort of training data would have it talking about secret soup
czr 7y ago
As a reminder, the Olive Garden thing is a joke, not the result of any actual AI. https://iforcedabot.com/ https://iforcedabot.com/ is a fun site with some demos of what text-generation can actually do these days.
- komali2 7y ago
  Thank you for this, the office and I are losing our minds over the AI generated riddles: https://iforcedabot.com/my-best-friend-is-a-monkey-terrible-neural-network-riddles#28415 https://iforcedabot.com/my-best-friend-is-a-monkey-terrible-...

QuackingJimbo 7y ago

I was ready to crap on this post for calling your own work "semi-convincing" but this writing does actually resemble most of the random blogs I find when trying to research something like nutrition or fitness. Not a compliment to the quality of the writing. But definitely not unconvincing. Add some ads that make it impossible to scroll without freezing Chrome and you're good to go.

scottndecker 7y ago

Someone didn't provision enough throughput...I'm getting a 508 status

kristintynski 7y ago
working on it... sorry!

xwdv 7y ago

I suggest not reading the generated article. Trying to comprehend what you are reading does not feel good in the brain, and doing it long term may severely impact your reading comprehension skills and can make reading into an exhausting activity. It’s not the same as trying to understand sentences with bad grammar, at least those texts represent a human trying to express an idea, so you know with enough effort you can eventually come to understand what they are trying to say and maybe score a dopamine hit. In this case, no amount of effort will bring meaning to AI generated jibberish.

plibither8 7y ago

A few more... * Person: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ * Waifu: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ * SO Question: https://stackroboflow.com/ https://stackroboflow.com/ * Startup: https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/ * Resume: https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/ https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/

ainar-g 7y ago
The Waifu one is so realistic that it's uncanny. It's almost like we're just a few years away from whole seasons of deep-dreamt anime and whole tankoubons of procedurally generated manga.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  It's going in the wrong direction. Sure, it can conjure up a random picture of a face. But for purposes or manga/anime building, it's near useless, as it can't generate that face in multiple perspectives, or with different kinds of facial expressions. This Waifu truly does not exist - neither in prior publications, nor in the algorithm itself.
  - jcims 7y ago
    Not directly but there are other networks that can do those parts.
    - TeMPOraL 7y ago
      I'd like to learn more. Anything you could link to?
      - jcims 7y ago
        https://youtu.be/p1b5aiTrGzY https://youtu.be/p1b5aiTrGzY One shot training examples at 4:23
  - 7y ago

topynate 7y ago

I see that the posts aren't generated in real time. Were they curated? Even if these are just the top 5%, they're still extremely impressive.

lettergram 7y ago

First, I feel this is a hand curated list of results (same with most of the "this does not exist" stuff). That being said it is very good. Pretty funny quotes: > You might not think that a mumford brush would be a good filter for an Insta story. They are definitely leaking some of their training data. Many of the names in the article are real people (which is concerning). Working on synthetic data generation myself[1], this is not at all surprising. It's also why we are basically living in a "post-truth" world... https://austingwalters.com/the-last-free-generation/ https://austingwalters.com/the-last-free-generation/ What do you do when anything can be synthetically created? [1] https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily-need-data-for-data-science-48d7bf503074 https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

kristintynski 7y ago
It is curated, but not heavily. I usually took the first result of the prompt. Occasionally i'd skip a result that was totally off, but all of them were the best out of the first 2-3 for any given prompt.

naeemtee 7y ago

Anyone know of any open source libraries that are even remotely close in quality/effectiveness as Grover AI?

gwern 7y ago
Grover is open source. They open sourced it the other day.
- bbmario 7y ago
  Does it come with any samples on how to use it? Like, how to train, how to generate after training, etc.
  - gwern 7y ago
    Eh, sort of: https://github.com/rowanz/grover https://github.com/rowanz/grover It can't be that difficult if OP did it so quickly, after all. If you want much more detailed documentation, I wrote up in detail how to train & generate text with the original GPT-2 models using nshepperd's codebase: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 minimaxr also has a actively maintained codebase which I believe has powered some of the GPT-2 projects you might've seen recently like Talk to Transformer: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
    - bbmario 7y ago
      Thank you so much!

cabaalis 7y ago

Knowing we have a future of ai generated content coming, I think about staring at the lights that make humans docile so their brains can be stolen in the movie "Skyline."

deleted 7y ago

[deleted]

sdinsn 7y ago

Ironically, this marketing blog does exist: > About This Blog > This was created by the Content Marketing agency Frac.tl as a demonstration This is just an ad.

JamesBarney 7y ago

I don't know if this says more about the how far AI has come or the average quality of a marketing blog.

numtel 7y ago

Disappointed that I didn't see a new generation upon refresh...

kashishhora 7y ago

I made a site to aggregate the other "This ____ does not exist" sites that have popped up: thisxdoesnotexist.com

bbmario 7y ago

Content generation like this is fascinating. I had a lot of fun with markov chains in the past, but this is just groundbreaking. Any tips for a fellow developer that wants to start with this? How do I get started with GPT2 or Grover?