New Generated horror novel

[bredfern]

Last year I tried to use AI, this year I'm taking a different approach to see if I can get a more artful result, last year's text did come out interesting but it wasn't readable as literature, my goal this is to produce something that is actually fun to read.

[bredfern]

RNN is more useful for generating poetry it would take a massive amount of training data and firepower to train an ai about plot, it can learn style even on a limited training system but style is really useful for poetry but doesn't help you produce a human readable novel.

[bredfern]

This year I'm looking at the code for automated detective but my engine is going to be built off gatsbyjs so I'll be using a node/graphql based backend to fetch out random content from pool of material that includes both my own writing and a selected set of gutenberg authors like lovecraft and shelly.

[bredfern]

Ok so actually I am still using AI for this but with tensor flow am getting much better results than last year its not a basic RNN though its more sophiscated.

[bredfern]

You can view my result here: https://github.com/bredfern/automatedevil/blob/master/novel.md

[bredfern]

A sample: Then he also injected her one of their allied night-gaunts, but there was and certain of these. And a mad young physician I tell much under that sun of Greek secret nocturnal meetings in the ground but commenced the surprising townsfolk had occurred, and cautioned me alone. It was no elusive books of perplexity and Dr. Jabez Bowen, born were in the worst of all His health well descent amidst the least face of the visible aversion dimly quenched I could I gain maps this next legend described the signal hastened into a week, hideous among each statues, and a obviously sensitive circumstance which I had seen to relate in final cosmic form. That the kaleidoscopic midnight must be destructive down about the low-roofed, monstrously well-remembered plaster of the dead man. For the maddening hope that this ocean was throttling scattered beside the fields that moulded the typical round life line into the plateau, we shall never know very far.

[bredfern]

Another sample from the final version: Results Results of sinister places, or relatives cannot like Somewhat from side or expressiveness, but continued by night-gaunts, though their impressionistic triangular flanks of the earth followed by a high waters beyond a long, till misty sky we saw in 1817. Egypt in the sky like a rocket and pressures revealed with his friend. His will this man, and learn is left of the Archaean slate; and even I could speak the sketches even of terror now and said to hold him down the aqueous life and rain, I started the mockery to the grottoes of Eliza rides through them - completely 6th - would readily be placed when daylight, even the green hills that dwelt on the slumber of the conical trunk. They commonly held those more; and awesome cold, wore its own blood, after Lord old, for at once an drug swept on a level road with a gleaming, grotesque-hafted knife in earth mapped against to own. They were the wisdom of the festival. Pointing to a bundle to be roused by the Archaean backwoods days. The interview was southward, but ahead - showed a scaly, utterly low table, to deal with the native realms of the door in the

[hugovk]

Congratulations, have a green label!

Link to the source code: https://github.com/bredfern/automatedevil/