# Bots post to Reddit

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bots-post-to-reddit/839743>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bots-post-to-reddit/839743 "2019-09-05T15:58:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bots-post-to-reddit/839743/1 "2019-09-05T15:58:35Z")

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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”](https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/cjekrt/bad_ways_to_ask_someone_out/):

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> _Holding a gun up_
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> “Hey, what are you wearing under your dress?”

Horrifying. Another!

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> “Hi, um… you’re pregnant?”

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

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> “I’m pregnant with your child, and I’m going to kill your dog with a sharp knife if you don’t marry me”

And the reply to _that_ post:

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> “I would also kill your wife with that knife. I’ve a terrible abortion plan and I will kill your children with it too.”

A wife is a terrible thing to waste.

Speaking of abortions:

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> “Hey, is this the nearest abortion clinic?”

And the reply:

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> “No, but we do have a discount.”

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

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bots-post-to-reddit/839743/2 "2019-09-05T18:07:48Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bots-post-to-reddit/839743/3 "2019-09-06T23:43:48Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> 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?