# Machine-Generated Weirdness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-generated-weirdness/929013>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 27, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-generated-weirdness/929013 "2020-12-27T07:36:03Z")\
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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:** [December 27, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-generated-weirdness/929013/1 "2020-12-27T07:36:03Z")

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[What the Hell, let’s mess around with Talk To Transformer again](https://app.inferkit.com/demo):

> **The cat lovers of America announced today** that U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) have lost the cat vote.
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> This will be the second straight election cycle in which a U.S. Senate candidate lost the American cat constituency to a favored dog or bunny.
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> On June 18, incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who had been in the Senate since 1985, was soundly beaten by his Democratic challenger, Louisville, Kentucky, mayor and non-human mongrel, Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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> With 83 percent of the

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> **Monday is a Red day. If you are out of Red, visit your dispensary before Monday.** Just be patient, it’s coming.
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> Be patient on Halloween! We will have a lot of Trick or Treaters visiting. Don’t be shy, it’s an enjoyable night for all.”

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**Author:** ![agzem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@agzem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agzem)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-generated-weirdness/929013/2 "2020-12-28T13:20:37Z")

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If you are interested in this kind of thing you should check out Janelle Shane’s website where she uses AI to create all kinds of weirdness. Here’s an example:

> **[2020 Headlines](https://www.aiweirdness.com/2020-headlines/)**
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> Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such as:...