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i put Alexis De Tocqueville through this and the results were legible but hard to read. Then I put a demagogue politician speech through this and the results w

i put Alexis De Tocqueville through this and the results were legible but hard to read. Then I put a demagogue politician speech through this and the results were almost like a speech that politician would have given. It was hard to tell the difference between the original and the generated. in other words, if the public admires word salad, and someone speaks in word salad, then word salad output would not be considered as problematic by a large number of people.

chuckadams 3y ago
I recall one site way back that used a Markov chain generator to mash up Karl Marx and Ayn Rand. Was fairly plausible reading, actually.
- nurettin 3y ago
  I imagine that's like mixing different kinds of salad.
  - chuckadams 3y ago
    It definitely gives you some whiplash, but most of the time it's just righteous ranting about ... whatever. The whole site was a trove of comedy, featuring quizzes like "Porn Star or My Little Pony?". I couldn't remember its name until I started typing this reply: lileks.com.
hermitcrab 3y ago
I did a markov reworking of some of Trump's speeches and got: "Hillary brought death and disaster to Iraq, Syria and Libya, she empowered Iran, and she unleashed ISIS. Now she wants to raise your taxes very substantially. Highest taxed nation in the world is a tenant of mine in Manhattan, so many great people. These are people that have been stolen, stolen by either very stupid politicians ask me the question, how are you going to get rid of all the emails?” “Yes, ma’am, they’re gonna stay in this country blind. My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government that will not protect its people is a government corruption at the State Department of Justice is trying as hard as they can to protect religious liberty" Details at: https://successfulsoftware.net/2019/04/02/bloviate/ https://successfulsoftware.net/2019/04/02/bloviate/
- vorticalbox 3y ago
  When ngrams is high (10) how do you pick "what" to start from?
  - hermitcrab 3y ago
    IIRC it starts with the same few characters as the source text.

chuckadams 3y ago

I recall one site way back that used a Markov chain generator to mash up Karl Marx and Ayn Rand. Was fairly plausible reading, actually.

nurettin 3y ago
I imagine that's like mixing different kinds of salad.
- chuckadams 3y ago
  It definitely gives you some whiplash, but most of the time it's just righteous ranting about ... whatever. The whole site was a trove of comedy, featuring quizzes like "Porn Star or My Little Pony?". I couldn't remember its name until I started typing this reply: lileks.com.

hermitcrab 3y ago

I did a markov reworking of some of Trump's speeches and got: "Hillary brought death and disaster to Iraq, Syria and Libya, she empowered Iran, and she unleashed ISIS. Now she wants to raise your taxes very substantially. Highest taxed nation in the world is a tenant of mine in Manhattan, so many great people. These are people that have been stolen, stolen by either very stupid politicians ask me the question, how are you going to get rid of all the emails?” “Yes, ma’am, they’re gonna stay in this country blind. My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government that will not protect its people is a government corruption at the State Department of Justice is trying as hard as they can to protect religious liberty" Details at: https://successfulsoftware.net/2019/04/02/bloviate/ https://successfulsoftware.net/2019/04/02/bloviate/

vorticalbox 3y ago
When ngrams is high (10) how do you pick "what" to start from?
- hermitcrab 3y ago
  IIRC it starts with the same few characters as the source text.