Operation Cyborg r/sixwordstories Takeover commences! Language models may suck at long-term coherence rn but six words? Sweet spot. I wrote a little intro, copied some top stories from sixwordstories.net/, and started generating.

May 5, 2021 ยท 8:49 PM UTC

Right away the results were a mix of poignant and funny.
There is one obvious problem: lots of them aren't actually six words. That's where the cyborg part comes in. For the last couple days I've been taking some of my favorites, lightly editing them to make them six words, and posting them on teddit.net/r/sixwordstories/.
(cc @gwern's BPE rants re: GPT not understanding word count.)