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Some friends of mine in college ran a markov chain generator on the "police reports" section of our college newspaper (1). The best 10% of the results, from a t
by dgacmu 2y ago
Some friends of mine in college ran a markov chain generator on the "police reports" section of our college newspaper (1). The best 10% of the results, from a three-token generator, were some of the funniest machine-generated text I've ever seen -- it had an absurdity that modern LLMs seem to avoid due to making higher-level semantic sense.
It probably also helped that there was a creep exposing himself in the library during this period, which made for some good base material.
(1) The Daily Utah Chronicle; if memory serves, said friends also tried the markov chain generator on the personals section to good effect as well.
- gs17 2y ago> it had an absurdity that modern LLMs seem to avoid due to making higher-level semantic sense. That's it, LLMs are "trying" to be funny but aren't quite smart enough to actually be funny and their errors are just boring. Markov chains are accidentally hitting on absurdist bits because every sentence gets randomly brought in whatever the homograph equivalent to a malapropism is.