mechanical-turk'ed novel

[lee2sman]

I'm wondering about past examples of novel-generation working with Turkers. I'm thinking it might be interesting to create a crowdsourced\outsourced generated novel.

[dluman]

I know of a poet (Matthew Trease) who did something with MT by giving Turkers an identical, specific task to do in order to farm a corpus. He had them turn to their bookshelves and select singular phrases quasi-randomly. It's poetry, but here is an example of what he came up with (there is supposedly an entire manuscript): http://cordite.org.au/poetry/collaboration/bailiwick-4-5/

[lee2sman]

thanks