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Very curious to hear about the training set for these. If I had to guess, someone scraped GoDaddy/Google Domains/Namecheap for the "premium domains" that are being squatted on and then trained a language model on that corpus. Hopefully the OP can provide details!

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It looks to me like it is finding nonsense words that are pronounceable to English speakers and then checking if that nonsense word is available. I assume a linguist programmer could create an algorithm to come up with pronounceable words.

Is there a word for a nonsense word that is pronounceable? A potential word?

There's more to it than just pronounceable. e.g. I got tranclitic, mysothelium, gurnt,

1. tran- looks like reanalysis of words that begin with trans-, and we often pronounce the -s with the start of the root word. Clitic is a word in and of itself.

2. myso- is a rare Greek prefix, thelium means nipple. Unfortunately, together it would suggest nipple of dirt.

3. There's a low-scored urbandictionary entry for gurnt, but that's about it.

I think there's some knowledge of morpheme-like objects in the AI.

Markov chains, perhaps?

A jabberwocky word perhaps [1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky_sentence

Side note. Searching for a pronounceable password generator [0] is how I discovered the excellent, historical multicians.org site.

0: https://multicians.org/thvv/gpw-js.html

It may be based on https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ ?

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