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> [typed] C'est pas l'homme qui prend la mer. C'est la mer qui prend l'homme. Moi, la mer, elle m'a pris,

> [generated] elle m'a emporté, elle m'a ramené, elle m'a fait voyager. Mon rêve était de voyager. Mais trop pressée, je n'ai pas pu, j'ai pris l'avion. J'ai atterri à Marseille, j'ai pris le bus

Almost like you could sing along !

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For the non french, it's the beginning of a famous song by Renaud, "La mer".

And the generated lyrics could fit the tempo of the song but mostly make it very funny! I'd laugh to hear Renaud sing "I was yoo much in a hurry; I took the plane; I landed in Marseille; I took the bus"

The song is called "Dès que le vent soufflera" ;)

  Dès que le vent soufflera
  Je repartira
  Dès que les vents tourneront
  Nous nous en allerons (de requin)

I wonder if any model could end up being this creative with conjugation and plays on words.

For the non-French speakers, repartira and allerons are wrong conjugations (should be repartirai and irons) and allerons (de requin) is a play on words because allerons is close to ailerons (fins; and requin is shark).

I should have known better!

Impressed and intrigued by the fact it chose a female voice (pressée)

which looks like a grammatical error "Moi, la mer, elle m'a pris" should have been "prise" if the narrator were a woman.

And even in the generated sentence, some verbs imply a male narrator (emporté and ramené)

So many people are making mistakes on the accord with the auxiliary avoir that the model probably did not learn the correct rule. Especially if there is enough source material from forums and other informal texts.

Oh nice catch ! It's a duet - with Axelle Red - then !

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