Category: 05

Koke_Cacao-TextSynthesis

(05-TextSynthesis)

inferkit
narrative-device

Using: Narrative Device
Themes: coding, homework
Result: The teacher looked up from his computer screen and saw that his student had not yet arrived. “I’m going to
have to start grading your homework,” he said, “but I want to make sure you are doing it right.”
Comment: This has nothing to do with coding homework. The model interpret coding as teacher’s computer
screen. The result might by highly “plagiarized” from a story book.

Using: inferkit
Result:

The teacher looked up from his computer screen and saw that his student had not yet arrived. "I'm going to have to start grading your homework," he said, "but I want to make sure you are doing it right."

The student sighed, rolled his eyes, and said, "There's no point.

This is the ninth grade.

You'll do whatever I say and there's nothing I can do about it. "He sat down, and opened his book.

His teacher put his name in the "Now On and shook his head.

"I get to do this each and every night. Why can't you do it during the day?"

"Well," the teacher said, "when I set my alarm clock for noon, my friend buys me coffee.

I set it back to 5: 30 and I'm still awake.

It's got to be midnight by the time you go to bed.

There's no point in going to sleep."

The student sighed and closed his book.

Comment: The model only seems to pay attention to the previous 2 sentences and major characters. Although attention (to
characters) is all you need, but it is hard for the model to generate a global level theme of the text that is
consistent and relevant.

 

The InferKit Tool has definitely sampled from a lot of writing because I kept trying to make the text generator give new Fight Club rules, experimenting with changing the syntax of the sentence and removing words, but without fail it kept saying that the first rule is “you don’t talk about fight club.” That answer is accurate of course, but I kind of wish the generator was worse at it’s job so it could output a funnier answer. But otherwise, I thought the InferKit created surprisingly realistic and natural writing most of the time. The Narrative Device website created similarly natural-sounding writing. However, in my little experimentation I did with it, I felt that one theme usually overpowered the other. Like here I kept switching the second theme, keeping the first as “dogs with guns,” and each new prompt always had nearly nothing to do with the second theme, and was focused squarely on the exploits of armed canines. Maybe the generator is just really really interested in dogs with guns.