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coffeesp00ns  ·  3573 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If An Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Know?

    A Pollack is still a Pollack even if most people just think it's drips on canvas.

It's much the same for serialist music. when it's performed live and someone misses a note, it's surprisingly easy to notice.

    Back in the dark ages (1991) we decided to type gibberish in 4-15 letter strings into MacWrite and then spellcheck it. The results sounded remarkably similar to Skinny Puppy lyrics. They were not, however, Skinny Puppy lyrics and while many people couldn't immediately tell which was computer and which was Nivek Ogre, one is definitely better.

I'd be interested to see this if it was still hanging around the internet anywhere. would this even work with modern spellcheck?