[turtlesoup]

Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist)

Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/

[revolvingocelot]

Ahh, and you've made the wise decision to NFTify the fucked up Homers! Nothing says "investment vehicle" like-- hey, wait a minute!! That's a fucked up Bart!

Good day, sir!

[0] https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...

[turtlesoup]

Alright! Someone shilling on my behalf. Say what you want about NFTs, every time I see one of the homers sell it brings a big smile to my face.

[azinman2]

Which is a bad strategy as dictated by signaling theory [1]. There's nothing rare or costly about them when you can keep hitting refresh to get a new one.

Instead, if there were only a few produced in the world, and you owning it give you some kind of status, then you'd have a real potential NFT.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory

[not2b]

You might need some filtering. I got the following output for my 7th or 8th try (I did s/ig/*/g because I hate typing this):

noun.

n*gerbar

n*·ger·bar

a bar from which the beer and liquor are sold

"that party got a whole lot cooler this week with a n*gerbar refreshment"

a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

[turtlesoup]

Ah crap, good call. I did a first-pass at filtering for the ones displayed on the site but my regex must have had some misses.

[sillysaurusx]

It's hilarious that not even this GPT side project can escape the need for OpenAI-style output filtering.

Someone really ought to make an open source lib to solve this once and for all...

[throw10920]

(you might want to read up on the use-mention distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...)

[dools]

Has it generated a word for the noise you make after sipping a cup of tea or a cold drink? The “ahhhh” sound. I nominate the word “fonce” if it’s not already taken.

“The pair sat foncing so noisily over their hot cups of tea that it drove everyone else from the room”

[posterboy]

moaning, the word is moaning, or involuntary escaping of air. If it's done really loud and on ourpose that's just called being an asshole, basically.

[arno1]

Ahahahahahaha! What a foncy sippers!

[joshspankit]

You may have just done more to bastardize the english language than all the slang of the past 10 years.

And by that I mean that the words are good enough that people will use them and lexicographers will have no choice but to add them to dictionaries.

[capitainenemo]

Regrettably I hit refresh, but one word it said did not exist was "geochronology"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochronology

[rendall]

It writes Wikipedia articles too? Thus the Singularity begins.

[elb2020]

It's got a good grasp on the difference between Norwegian and Swedish, I see; it defines Norwegian as "very light, quiet, or peaceful; tranquil", as in "we live our lives Norwegian in a quiet quiet city", and Swedish as "wicked or excessively wicked", as in "his swedish exploits". Haha...

[aasasd]

> https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com

I'm now more interested in how the transitions are made than in the generators per se.

[turtlesoup]

I'd suggest this code to follow: https://github.com/lucidrains/stylegan2-pytorch/blob/fc22408.... The standard practice is to interpolate between the source latents and target latents and feed the interpolated values into your GAN. There are various ways of doing interpolation (i.e. not always straight linear interpolation)

[dymax78]

No specific question, but thank you for the highly entertaining (and interesting) site; I've had a blast with it.

"A Way With Words" would probably love this.

[TobTobXX]

There's a link called "link" which creates a permalink to a given word.

[shaftway]

The alternate site is particularly relevant to me; the first two words I "made up" were "cromulent" and "embiggen".

Well played.

[vinhboy]

Should have named it startupnamegenerator.com

[scoot]

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962

[bashinator]

I think what it does with real words is almost more interesting. The definition it picked for the word "real" was accurate, but kind of odd. If I recall correctly, "real" was defined as, "committed", or "dedicated", as in "real fans only like the vinyl edition of that record." Which is like, true for sure, but not in the top 10 things I'd think of first.

[elb2020]

I agree. It does the same with for instance "ballsy", which it defines as "stunning and stylish", as in "the ballsy pink dress".

[danans]

The "word" segmentation seems pretty off, even for these hallucinated words and meanings. Are they generated by the same model?

[hyperpallium2]

What's the meaning of "liff"?

[askvictor]

thiscrossworddoesnotexist could be fun and perhaps devilish.

[francoisdevlin]

So I just had a hit on a real word (pejorative), not sure if that's the plan or not

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/oLvV

[asdf3243245q]

The word linked above is "perjorative", which is one letter away from being a real word.

[rendall]

It would be glorious if we could share definitions. Who wouldn't want to tweet "chadocracy"? or "prospectivism, the belief that an action will have a good outcome".

[baxter001]

Always curious of how you walk around the latent space in these, are you just linearly interpolating between two random high dimension points?

[Yajirobe]

How long did it take to train this GPT-2 based model?

[turtlesoup]

It's a refinement of a lightweight version of GPT-2 by Hugging Face -- https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/gpt2.html. I don't recall exact numbers, but once I had the structure of the problem right (i.e. sequencing words, part of speech and definitions) it was around 12 hours on my old 1080 TI.

[leoc]

I first got 'rudimentally' which certainly does already exist although it's not the most popular of words.

[torgard]

This is cracking me up LOL

It would be an amazing screensaver, just iterations upon iterations of Fucked Up Homers.

[bix6]

Fantastic work! How did you learn to make the Homers? I would love to create something like this.

[wodenokoto]

Do you do inference on every visit?

What is the cost of being on the front page?

[disconcision]

hmm. out of 5 words i generated, two actually exist: bioamine and bioprocessor.

[netcan]

Please say you take requests.

[turtlesoup]

Press "write your own" and it'll make up a definition for you :)

[swayvil]

does the definition exist or is that machine-generated too?

[weisk]

Well duh obviously it exists, arent you reading it? Therefore it falls in the realm of existence

lol jk, im just fucking around with the semantics of words here. However I have to admit, this thought about existence or truthfulness of concepts or statements being spitted out by unsentient machines that mix and match infinite "real" patterns, has me quite worried...

Sometimes I find myself reading at a whole discussion thread, and I get the uncomfortable sensation that everything I've been reading is a bunch of bots training each other's models...

Not quite when the concepts are complex enough, all right, it is easy to spot pointless mouthfuls deviations of a main subject being discussed, but what about, for example, the user reviews on an amazon product? Or a youtube's vid comment section? Or whatever shit you consume from the internet.

I'm by no means any expert in the subject, and current state of the art of the Turing test, but I've seen just enough GPT-3 whichcraft to start being totally skeptical about anything I see online.

sorry for the huge rant, but i took a great effort to make it sound like its coming from a real person XD

also, to @turtlesoup: Thank you, that was wonderful. I hope you enjoy this cup of coffee too :-)

[turtlesoup]

Both definitions and words are machine generated!