Bots post to Reddit

Someone trained a GPT-2 bot to come up with Reddit posts based on various subreddits (discussion fora), one of which is called ScenesFromAHat, based on the Scenes From A Hat game on “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” where the actors act out scenes described on cards drawn from… slips my mind. Doesn’t matter anyway.

On with the computer-generated posts! The prompt is “Bad Ways To Ask Someone Out”:

Horrifying. Another!

Not as horrifying. Let’s see a response to that one, also made by a computer:

And the reply to that post:

A wife is a terrible thing to waste.

Speaking of abortions:

And the reply:

The bots have discovered salesmanship. Is the discount a two-for-one deal, or is there a card you can get punched?

By 2027, more than half of all new things posted on the internet will be done without humans.

And how does “By 2027, more than half of all new things posted on the internet will be done without humans” make you feel?