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I should do this for words.

by jay_kyburz 7y ago

yummybear 7y ago
A aardvark awkardly advances A aardvark awkardly announces A aardvark awkardly apprehends ...
- primrose 7y ago
  An* aardvark
  - gattilorenz 7y ago
    That comes much later.
  - admiral33 7y ago
    2035 everybody must speak in grammatically incorrect sentences to avoid being sued by the algorithm.
    - teekert 7y ago
      Haha, nice line of thought. Almost, just almost (and scary because of it) imaginable as a real future.
      - wnkrshm 7y ago
        That is why I hope that experiments such as the one that the artists in the article do aren't successful and their copyright does not hold up in court. If it did, an actor with more resources could feasibly blanket own any cultural good of value and automatically, quantifiably argue how close any arbitrary third party creation is to their copyrighted material.
lsiebert 7y ago
You really got to do it for letters, as you can't know what new words might develop.
shiado 7y ago
If you create a program which provably generates all of the members of a specified set, do you own the copyright to a member of this set regardless of the runtime of your program?
jmkd 7y ago
I've often thought how strikingly easy it seems to be to produce sentences that have probably never been written before. For example: I am typing these words on a mobile phone whilst sat on a train to an airport, wearing a green jacket, brown shoes and a maroon hat with a black bag containing gifts for my children. That seems a fairly prosaic sentence at first glance but I doubt has been written before.
- rzzzt 7y ago
  Try searching for it in the Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/ (edit: ninja'd)
  - jmkd 7y ago
    Fantastic project, thanks!
- samplatt 7y ago
  There's a subreddit for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/
- iainmerrick 7y ago
  I’m sure I’ve read (in the context of Google searches) that it’s very easy to write a sentence that’s never been written. Most sentences on HN are probably completely unique.
saalaa 7y ago
Of course, it's already been done: https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/
jrockway 7y ago
"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."

I should do this for words.

yummybear 7y ago

A aardvark awkardly advances A aardvark awkardly announces A aardvark awkardly apprehends ...

primrose 7y ago
An* aardvark
- gattilorenz 7y ago
  That comes much later.
- admiral33 7y ago
  2035 everybody must speak in grammatically incorrect sentences to avoid being sued by the algorithm.
  - teekert 7y ago
    Haha, nice line of thought. Almost, just almost (and scary because of it) imaginable as a real future.
    - wnkrshm 7y ago
      That is why I hope that experiments such as the one that the artists in the article do aren't successful and their copyright does not hold up in court. If it did, an actor with more resources could feasibly blanket own any cultural good of value and automatically, quantifiably argue how close any arbitrary third party creation is to their copyrighted material.

lsiebert 7y ago

You really got to do it for letters, as you can't know what new words might develop.

shiado 7y ago

If you create a program which provably generates all of the members of a specified set, do you own the copyright to a member of this set regardless of the runtime of your program?

jmkd 7y ago

I've often thought how strikingly easy it seems to be to produce sentences that have probably never been written before. For example: I am typing these words on a mobile phone whilst sat on a train to an airport, wearing a green jacket, brown shoes and a maroon hat with a black bag containing gifts for my children. That seems a fairly prosaic sentence at first glance but I doubt has been written before.

rzzzt 7y ago
Try searching for it in the Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/ (edit: ninja'd)
- jmkd 7y ago
  Fantastic project, thanks!
samplatt 7y ago
There's a subreddit for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/
iainmerrick 7y ago
I’m sure I’ve read (in the context of Google searches) that it’s very easy to write a sentence that’s never been written. Most sentences on HN are probably completely unique.

saalaa 7y ago

Of course, it's already been done: https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/

jrockway 7y ago

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."