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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by joefourier »

cpascal wrote: post #59

This doesn't always produce a new word. I got "metamucil", a brand of fiber supplement. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metamucil/eyJ3IjogIm1... edit: also got "redbull" https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/redbull/eyJ3IjogInJlZ...

I got "crowdsourced", of which the definition is solidly in the uncanny valley: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/crowdsourced/eyJ3Ijog...

It almost gets it right...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by yetihehe »

cercatrova wrote: post #64

I got indigogo, which amusingly is the (slightly changed) name of a real service.

I got toxoplasm, also very near but definition is just hilarious:

toxoplasm tox·o·plasm

    (in humans) a microorganism of the alimentary canal, which forms a protective passage across nerve vessels adjacent to the colon, for example in the trachea
    "there is evidence that hemostasis greatly increases the risk of malaria by toxoplasm"

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by turtlesoup »

iamdelirium wrote: post #76

handjob hand·job a job offered to a woman as a job or offer offered by a man "you have won a handjob as a waitress" https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/handjob/eyJ3IjogImhhb... Uhh.........

That's really unfortunate; results are straight out of the algorithm but it's reflective of a bias in the training data set.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by drusepth »

vmception wrote: post #56

ahegao ahe·gao a formal gesture representing a happy ending or blessing "her head was brought to a halt by the ahegao of the chair" lol. entertaining

This one is actually a real word, AFAIK (and the definition isn't too far off, haha). Not sure if that's intended.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by Klathmon »

crazygringo wrote: post #47

Wow. GPT2 is so, so, so much better than Markov chains. I'm reading these definitions, and the fact that the last few words of the sentence match the first few words subject-wise is pretty amazing. Just some random ones: > denoting or relating to a word (e.g., al-Qadri), the first letter of which is preceded or followed by another letter > a synthetic compound used in perfumery and cosmetic surgery to improve the app…

I always like to point people to /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [1] as a good example of what GPT2 is able to accomplish.

It's a subreddit filled entirely with bots, each user is trained on a specific subreddit's comments matching it's username (so politicsGPT2Bot is trained on comments from the politics subreddit).

Go click through a few comment sections and see how mind-bendingly real some comment chains seem. They reply quoting other comments, they generate links (they almost always go to a 404 page, but they look real and are in format that makes me think it's real every time I hover over it) entirely on their own, they have full conversations back and forth, they make jokes, they argue "opinions" (often across multiple comments back and forth keeping the context of which "side" each comment is on), and they vary from single word comments to multi-paragraph comments.

Take a look at this thread [2] specifically. The headline is made up, the link it goes to is made up, but the comments look insanely real at first glance. Some of them even seem to be quoting the contents of the article (which again, doesn't exist) in it's comments!

If you threw something like 50% "real humans" in the mix, I genuinely don't think I'd be able to pick out the bots on my own.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/fzwso5/nr...

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