Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
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I think that the issue lies in that we approach content generation in the wrong way: a sequence that goes from start to end in one go. The idea is at the start and by the end of the sequence, the model had moved far away from the original idea. We humans, start with one or a couple of ideas and we iterate over them many times and then expand them in all directions. If only a model could do that.
It's a corpus of text so large and varied, that simple requests can bring up a few good examples, which can be mashed together to seem new. It's essentially a smart search & plagiarism process. I suspect if you could view the main contributing sources it would be less impressive.
for example, I was really impressed that GPT3 could write code - until I realised that it contained most of stack-overflow (including code examples) - no actual inference was happening, it was just search.
On the other hand, people talking about OpenAI all the time helps it thrive - all publicity is good publicity. So the best thing you can do personally is, if you don't like what they do, just don't talk about it anymore.
The text is ultimately managed by a real human being otherwise capable of writing original text. That human being hasn't been exposed to English entirely through the corpus of test given, as would be the case of GPT, which has no previous knowledge of language.
TLDR; the technique gives the text to an already create human being, rather than expecting creativity to arise from the technique itself.
Without seeing the source material, how original do you know these generations to be?
Everything's a remix.
This is... like that.
A fun modification is is provide the next writer the last word (or the last few words) to build from.
It is also fun to play as a drawing game. Divide paper into thirds. One player draws a set of shoulders/head leaving a few connection lines passing below the fold. Fold paper over so only the connection lines are visible. Next player uses those lines to draw the torso. Fold. Last player draws the legs.
It’s good to have a few going at one time so everyone gets to draw throughout.
As far as I'm concerned all the cookie-cutter blockbuster movies of the past 10 years have been written according to an algorithm and they were all terrible.
https://slate.com/culture/2013/07/hollywood-and-blake-snyder...
AFAIK GPT-3 was not trained only on public domain data?
Are there cases of GPT reciting stories? Most content I've seen from it has seemed original enough that I couldn't find a source by searching parts.