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National Novel Generation Month, 2015 edition.
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Fake press coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel #159

Open enkiv2 opened 8 years ago

enkiv2 commented 8 years ago

Based on suggestions in thread #9

Source: https://github.com/enkiv2/NaNoGenMo-2015/blob/master/clickbait.gg Completed novel: https://github.com/enkiv2/NaNoGenMo-2015/blob/master/clickbait.md

tra38 commented 8 years ago

Says Mister Kazemi, "It's more about doing something that is entertaining to yourself and possibly to other people". "It's not hard to tell a story. It's hard to tell good stories. How do you get a computer to understand what good means?", says Computer Scientist Mark Riedl. "But there's no guarantee of quality in NaNoWriMo proper, either, and there's probably less risk of emergent cryptozoological erotica", writes an article from last month in The Verge.

While the computer does not care what lines it prints out, this following paragraph 'flows' and make sense. Of course, you had to generate hundreds of paragraphs that made less sense...in order to get this one paragraph that made sense.

Consider the following near-future: Journalists stop writing entirely. "Journalists" instead proudly call themselves "editors" and "content curators", out to make sense of a insane world. Their 'best practices' are the following: 1) Write code that takes information from a corpus (or use an open-source program to generate the code for them). 2) Generate 50,000 words of nonsense, from said corpus. 3) Read through the nonsense to find something interesting. 4) Copy and paste.

Whether that future is dystopian (jobs are going away, writing loses meaning) or utopian (symbiosis of man and machine) depends on your thoughts about automation in general.

ikarth commented 8 years ago

Whether that future is dystopian (jobs are going away, writing loses meaning) or utopian (symbiosis of man and machine) depends on your thoughts about automation in general.

I love how this one book says something about journalism, clickbait, automation, and the human condition, mostly through its processes rather than the individual output per se.

enkiv2 commented 8 years ago

Just like how in Montfort's 1k generators the evocative sentences are essentially randomly chosen, all the quotes in the articles are real quotes that are just chosen and placed randomly. It's sort of surprising that so many of these collections of quotes seem to follow each other and make sense, since they were taken from different articles and interviews, and since more than half of Hugo's are about meow.py.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:46 PM Isaac Karth notifications@github.com wrote:

Whether that future is dystopian (jobs are going away, writing loses meaning) or utopian (symbiosis of man and machine) depends on your thoughts about automation in general.

I love how this one book says something about journalism, clickbait, automation, and the human condition, mostly through its processes rather than the individual output per se.

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