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comment by caelum19
caelum19  ·  3576 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If An Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Know?

A bit irrelevant but this reminds me of a 'idea generator' I made a while back

http://pastebin.com/0nx2kq4y I know it's nothing in comparision but it was really easy to make, I had a set of templates which had text with some keywords which inserted/removed more text. For example "Write a $bookViewpoint $booktype about a $character as $gender battles through $location to $location2 where $gender finds $character2 under the influence of @drug"

becomes

    Write a second person novel about an orphaned Scientology messiah as he battles through The Great Forest to Solitude where he finds The Real Slim Shady, under the influence of a alcoholic screen cleaning wipe

    One of these baseball stories was written by a computer. One was written by a human. Can you tell which?

    “Things looked bleak for the Angels when they trailed by two runs in the ninth inning, but Los Angeles recovered thanks to a key single from Vladimir Guerrero to pull out a 7-6 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Sunday.”

    “The University of Michigan baseball team used a four-run fifth inning to salvage the final game in its three-game weekend series with Iowa, winning 7-5 on Saturday afternoon (April 24) at the Wilpon Baseball Complex, home of historic Ray Fisher Stadium.”

This was pretty easy for me, it's hard to describe why but maybe after a while of going through that pastebin you'll know what I mean.