#fun

• What if you started with GPT-2, fined-tuned it on erotica (bdsm tag from erotic story site), and then prompted it with bible verses? comedy gold via reddit
  • seems a little crude, to have to do the “conditioning” via these “prompts”
  • although, in some sense, it’s sort of like an initial seed type thing. i wonder if it’s possible to make it so that you can essentially have it as a parameter
  • or, at the very least, it seems really crude to have to always be re-prompting the text (using some kind of sliding window that I’m not sure I completely understand) (need to understand how that actually works)
• this is part of something called NaNoGenMo, which is this really fun application of all these NLP things #teaching
• links:
  • referenced in the NewYorker [[toread]]
  • inspiration list
    • it’s sort of nice that they’re not just using fancy language models to get results, but being creative (sourcing from twitter, for instance, for prompts)