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The synthetic text they generated was surprisingly realistic, despite being generic.

If I were perusing a dozen reviews I probably wouldn't have spotted the AI-generated ones in the crowd.

the negative reviews are funny :D and this one sounds almost like its conscious:

"I couldn’t figure out how to stop this drivel. At worst, it was going absolutely nowhere, no matter what I did.Needles to say, I skim-read the entire book. Don’t waste your time."

is there a sarcasm neuron in there too?

That's a good observation. The code and trained model for this paper is on Github. It could be used to make a fake review generator. Dangerous.

We are getting better and better with automatic text generation. I wonder who will be the copyright owner of an AI-generated text, comments, songs, etc.?

A weird thought: at some point AI short stories may be far more profound than our own.

at the moment, AI short stories are derivative, so it's unlikely. They may well be better than the average, if trained on highly regarded works, but they're not completely novel.

As they say: “When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism, but when you take from many writers it’s called research.”

But given the whole corpus of all human-written texts, couldn't they be as creative as us?

It depends on your philosophy on what defines creativity, and whether all creativity is derivative of observing others.

I don't have one, and I guess that's still somehow unsolved problem. But there are some works on creativity and AI. This is definitely an interesting space to observe.

At the moment RNN's can't remember context, so they can make stuff that looks correct, but only on the surface.

I think that'll change, eventually...

We need some kind of hierarchical approach, and/or memory.

Seriously. How long before we have these reviews all over Amazon?

Yesterday?

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