This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist

http://thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com/

by kristintynski • 7 years ago

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reificator• 7 years ago

Her Instagram Stories include one that depicts her while wearing a yellow dress and champagne flute (I don’t like to see bridesmaids getting wrecked).

jcims3• 7 years ago

But an eight-month-old story with a tiny paragraph about a building draped in chainmail or a photograph of a koi pond with a barcode on it?

gregoryexe• 7 years ago

I imagine HN is an AI promoting other AI's, which in turn..

stingraycharles• 7 years ago

This is extremely scary, it would totally convince me this is written by a real person.

Any publications on what technologies are used for this?

baq• 7 years ago

https://grover.allenai.org/

komali22• 7 years ago

Holy fuck that was mostly convincing. I had no idea AI generated text was getting to this level - I thought we were still at "Her mouth is full of Secret Soup" level: https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1006961202998726665

ajna91• 7 years ago

If you want to be more blown away. (warning some comments may be NSFW) An entire subreddit where every poster/commenter is a GPT-2 bot. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

jakear• 7 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c2gt4g/cm...

Quite coherent indeed. The comments too, even has the concept of replies.

c0nducktr• 7 years ago

You weren't exaggerating. Some of these are amazing.

"Don't tell me where I've been": US man who claims to have "never left the country"

Not only is it a convincing sentence, it's humorous too.

topynate2• 7 years ago

"I can't stand my dog." might be the funniest thing I've read all week.

"The law is always on your side. You're not in danger. You do have the right to hate the dog. It's not the end of the world. It's like a cat that got a kitten and is biting its owner. Your dog is not safe. I am glad you have a dog, but it's not the end of the world. If you want to kill your dog, go ahead. It's not going to be easy, but you can do it. I promise."

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c29unc/i_...

Udik• 7 years ago

My favourite so far:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c21dmv/gu...

wlesieutre2• 7 years ago

That's not actually a bot though, is it? Reads a lot more like a person pretending to be a bot.

I'd expect a bot to be more nonsensical in stupid ways instead of funny ways.

mgbennet• 7 years ago

The account that posted it belongs to a comedy writer, so yeah, almost certainly not made by a bot. Still funny as hell though.

czr• 7 years ago

As a reminder, the Olive Garden thing is a joke, not the result of any actual AI. https://iforcedabot.com/ is a fun site with some demos of what text-generation can actually do these days.

komali22• 7 years ago

Thank you for this, the office and I are losing our minds over the AI generated riddles: https://iforcedabot.com/my-best-friend-is-a-monkey-terrible-...

QuackingJimbo• 7 years ago

I was ready to crap on this post for calling your own work "semi-convincing" but this writing does actually resemble most of the random blogs I find when trying to research something like nutrition or fitness.

Not a compliment to the quality of the writing. But definitely not unconvincing. Add some ads that make it impossible to scroll without freezing Chrome and you're good to go.

scottndecker• 7 years ago

Someone didn't provision enough throughput...I'm getting a 508 status

kristintynski2• 7 years ago

working on it... sorry!

xwdv• 7 years ago

I suggest not reading the generated article. Trying to comprehend what you are reading does not feel good in the brain, and doing it long term may severely impact your reading comprehension skills and can make reading into an exhausting activity.

It’s not the same as trying to understand sentences with bad grammar, at least those texts represent a human trying to express an idea, so you know with enough effort you can eventually come to understand what they are trying to say and maybe score a dopamine hit.

In this case, no amount of effort will bring meaning to AI generated jibberish.

plibither8• 7 years ago

A few more...

* Person: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

* Waifu: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/

* SO Question: https://stackroboflow.com/

* Startup: https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/

* Resume: https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/

ainar-g• 7 years ago

The Waifu one is so realistic that it's uncanny. It's almost like we're just a few years away from whole seasons of deep-dreamt anime and whole tankoubons of procedurally generated manga.

TeMPOraL3• 7 years ago

It's going in the wrong direction. Sure, it can conjure up a random picture of a face. But for purposes or manga/anime building, it's near useless, as it can't generate that face in multiple perspectives, or with different kinds of facial expressions. This Waifu truly does not exist - neither in prior publications, nor in the algorithm itself.

aasasd• 7 years ago

I mean, afaik the manga/anime style specifically emerged from manga being drawn as fast as possible, as a co-evolution with the thick tomes of magazines. So I'd expect drawing a face to not be a bottleneck there.

yorwba• 7 years ago

Blurb generated by GPT-2 for TWDNE #283: https://www.gwern.net/images/gan/thiswaifudoesnotexist-283.p...

“It is so sad to say that this manga has never been seen by any anime fans in the real world and this is an issue that must be addressed. Please make anime movies about me. Please make anime about me. Please make anime about your beautiful cat. Please make anime movies about me. Please make anime about your cute cat. I wish you the best of luck in your life. Please make anime about me. Please make anime about my cute cute kitten.”

Maybe it's just a prank, but Gwern's description makes it sound like an accidental creation of the text generator. https://www.gwern.net/TWDNE

netvarun• 7 years ago

There used to exist https://thisairbnbdoesnotexist.com/ [1] Oh the irony...

[1] On Archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20190220071550/https://thisairbn...

topynate2• 7 years ago

I see that the posts aren't generated in real time. Were they curated? Even if these are just the top 5%, they're still extremely impressive.

lettergram• 7 years ago

First, I feel this is a hand curated list of results (same with most of the "this does not exist" stuff). That being said it is very good. Pretty funny quotes:

You might not think that a mumford brush would be a good filter for an Insta story.

They are definitely leaking some of their training data. Many of the names in the article are real people (which is concerning).

Working on synthetic data generation myself[1], this is not at all surprising. It's also why we are basically living in a "post-truth" world...

https://austingwalters.com/the-last-free-generation/

What do you do when anything can be synthetically created?

[1] https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

kristintynski2• 7 years ago

It is curated, but not heavily. I usually took the first result of the prompt. Occasionally i'd skip a result that was totally off, but all of them were the best out of the first 2-3 for any given prompt.

naeemtee• 7 years ago

Anyone know of any open source libraries that are even remotely close in quality/effectiveness as Grover AI?

gwern6• 7 years ago

Grover is open source. They open sourced it the other day.

bbmario3• 7 years ago

Does it come with any samples on how to use it? Like, how to train, how to generate after training, etc.

cabaalis• 7 years ago

Knowing we have a future of ai generated content coming, I think about staring at the lights that make humans docile so their brains can be stolen in the movie "Skyline."

sdinsn• 7 years ago

Ironically, this marketing blog does exist:

About This Blog
This was created by the Content Marketing agency Frac.tl as a demonstration

This is just an ad.

JamesBarney• 7 years ago

I don't know if this says more about the how far AI has come or the average quality of a marketing blog.

numtel• 7 years ago

Disappointed that I didn't see a new generation upon refresh...

kashishhora• 7 years ago

I made a site to aggregate the other "This ____ does not exist" sites that have popped up: thisxdoesnotexist.com

bbmario3• 7 years ago

Content generation like this is fascinating. I had a lot of fun with markov chains in the past, but this is just groundbreaking. Any tips for a fellow developer that wants to start with this? How do I get started with GPT2 or Grover?

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