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   Damon L. Wakes (damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 07:04:51 JST Damon L. Wakes

   Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
   #MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 07:04:50 JST botvolution

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     @DamonWakes
     I ran a markov bot on twitter (Before Musk) that purported to be (first) Teresa May and then Boris Johnson, as Prime Ministers.
     I drew the corpus for each from a scrape of all their official speeches & remarks recorded on the UK gov websites.
     The terrifying thing was that in both cases, a surprisingly large amount of the output was entirely plausible, given May's lack of imagination and robotic delivery, and Johnson's general tendency to say whatever entered his head to do so.

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     Damon L. Wakes (damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 08:23:47 JST Damon L. Wakes

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     @botvolution Oh, wow, that's really concerning. It's immediately obvious this thing isn't me despite much of my input being pretty disjointed and random to begin with. (Admittedly this generator only strings together individual characters rather than whole words, but I'd worry about anyone whose tone could be replicated by anything this simple.)