[HN Gopher] This word does not exist
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This word does not exist
Author : adrian_mrd
Score : 531 points
Date : 2021-10-26 16:50 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| shoto_io wrote:
| I love this. It's awesome. The aesthetics are also very well
| done.
|
| Potential improvements:
|
| - The share links are weird
|
| - Let me give a word to the machine and will return an
| interesting composite
| imwillofficial wrote:
| The antipartition displayed by my team as I used several of these
| words was quite akin to concassimo
| smeyer wrote:
| Previous discussion/Show HN:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962
| catillac wrote:
| My word was found and indeed existed on Wikipedia, but I hadn't
| heard it before at least.
| darepublic wrote:
| Good for science fiction writers maybe
| kloch wrote:
| Are these being generated in real time or are the pre-generated
| and pulled from a database?
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| They're pre-generated[1] looks like. There's some checking to
| avoid trying to add existing words also.
|
| 1: https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-
| exist/tree...
| davidrusu wrote:
| Hmmmmm.. noun. pixer a
| black person "a pixer of social propriety with no real
| social skills"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/CghV
| alecst wrote:
| I got: stochasticity stochas*tic*ity
| a form of structure characterized by irregular bending and
| contraction of the body in some objects
|
| which is a word that does exist, albeit with a new definition.
|
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/stochasticity/eyJ3Ijo...
| capex wrote:
| I'd like to read a newsletter named MetaMuffin.
| tomelders wrote:
| Allow me to extend my contrafibularities for creating such a fun
| little project.
| mint2 wrote:
| The definition of that would would be along the lines of "Anti
| calf bone feelings" or "opposition to calf bone like
| sentiments" if it follows standard English and was being used
| in the correct context
| MrsPeaches wrote:
| See also: The Meaning of Liff
|
| http://liff.hivemind.net/
| canadian_tired wrote:
| Dang! Just saw this. Agreed!!
| ksaj wrote:
| I have that book on my shelf. I forget why I got it, but I like
| word games so I'm sure it's connected.
| pachico wrote:
| This is a great source to register domains!
| Thorina wrote:
| If only I could generate my own words for the NYT Spelling Bee.
| Alas it doesn't work that way!
| m463 wrote:
| doesn't amazon do this with brand names now?
| canadian_tired wrote:
| This reminds me, somehow, of "The Meaning Of Liff". A wonderful
| book you need to read.
|
| A sense of it can be found here: http://liff.hivemind.net/
| outside1234 wrote:
| Also - startup name generator :)
| pcrh wrote:
| "Deamidated" exists...
|
| Otherwise, it's fascinating!
| kazinator wrote:
| Sadly, it balks at producing a meaning for _gaffuration_ , which
| I made up and entered. I was so eager to discover what this
| means!
| harpiaharpyja wrote:
| Self-referential definition??? noun. bezoan
| be*zoan a stone resembling a dome made of bezoan
| "thick bezoan pottery"
|
| (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/31nY)
| [deleted]
| ineedasername wrote:
| Interesting that it comes up with a definition that might
| incorporate the sense of any root words (if present):
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/pr7C
| chaps wrote:
| resillience re*sil*lience the quality or state
| of toleration; tolerability "our resillience toward the
| world"
|
| Hmm.. Maybe they need to do a soundex comparison to avoid this
| sort of problem?
| sp332 wrote:
| I got "nonfalsifiable", which I'm pretty sure is a real weird.
| kloch wrote:
| The ability to synthetically generate real words could be
| considered a feature -- a sign that it is working well. Was
| the definition correct?
| mehrdada wrote:
| I played with this and it is super interesting (almost made me
| register a couple domain names!) That said, to me, it once again
| reinforces the belief that a large factor in GPT-3 amazingness is
| the taste in prompting/filtering that humans apply to it, that
| is, it produces a ton of crap that does not catch our eye that we
| just silently ignore and discard, but we will amplify and share
| amongst ourselves the output that is interesting, which imputes a
| huge selection bias external to the intelligence of the model
| itself that we may perceive as the model's.
| itronitron wrote:
| The caveat being that what catches our eye when flipping
| through GPT-3 output is more often comically absurd [0] instead
| of meaningful or 'intelligent.'
|
| 0. dishwitter dish*wit*ter a person who eats hot wax or other
| food _" she was a dishwitter"_
| spoonjim wrote:
| That said, if I go through this for 5 minutes and pick the 10
| best words they will be much better than the 10 best words I
| could make up in 5 minutes by myself.
| layer8 wrote:
| There's a subset of words produced by the site that trigger
| obvious and amusing ideas of what they could mean in the
| reader, but the generated definitions have nothing to do with
| that, and usually do not make much sense (besides being
| sometimes grammatically incorrect). It's evident that the
| software has no semantic understanding of what it generates.
| The rare occasions where the definitions appear to (almost)
| make creative sense are just statistical flukes.
| jll29 wrote:
| Computers aren't creative; the excitement about GPT-3 is humans
| projecting something into its output or filtering the small
| number of bits that appear to make sense, as you say.
|
| Neural language models are just recycling bits that humans have
| said before, they address well the "how to say" part of NLG
| (Natural Language Generation) but fail with respect to the
| "what to say" part.
| gmaster1440 wrote:
| Maybe computers aren't creative, but imo there's a stronger
| argument to discount creativity in the first place then:
| https://www.markfayngersh.com/post/the-thinking-placebo
| andybak wrote:
| > the small number of bits that appear to make sense.
|
| What I find most impressive is just how much of it's output
| appears to make sense.
|
| Of course "make sense" is the critical part of this. It's
| skin deep - but still quite astonishing fairly frequently.
| plutonorm wrote:
| is it skin deep though?
| andybak wrote:
| Well it's certainly fragile and easily lost.
|
| Are you implying some deeper understanding in GPT3?
| ravi-delia wrote:
| I wonder how much of that is due to the task GPT-3 was
| trained for? Perhaps the "what to say" part is working
| perfectly, but what it wants to say is as generic a text
| stream as possible. It already seems like GPT-3 has more
| "knowledge" than is obvious at first glance, but you need to
| prompt it correctly.
| black_knight wrote:
| > humans projecting something into its output or filtering
| the small number of bits
|
| I think this has value and is an interesting form of machine
| assisted creation.
|
| There is something similar, but more simplistic (no AI, just
| old-school RNGs), going on in generative music. For modular
| synthesizers, some of the more popular modules are random
| sequence generators [0]. These allow the musician to generate
| random elements of the music, say melody or drum pattern, but
| curate it. You might generate dozens of elements, carefully
| tweaking parameters, before you hear "the right one" - which
| you then actually use in the music.
|
| I guess my point is, curation of generated material is a form
| of creation! The generator is perhaps not the creator, but it
| is useful to develop better generators.
|
| [0] : such as "Turing Machine" from Modular Thing and
| "Marbles" from Mutable Instruments.
| netcan wrote:
| I was starting to write a response, and realised how
| patterned the debate is.
|
| We've been discussing the topic of machine intelligence since
| the start of CS and points of contention tend to show up in
| the same places.
|
| Anyway, it occured to me that if given 10 tries, GPT-3
| probably produces my comment adequately. I have an uneasy
| suspicion that it might take fewer tries than that...
| especially if prompted with "netcan, please respond."
|
| Anyway, the upshot is that for someone like me, on the "if
| you can't tell the difference" side of the cliche... _your_
| side 's insistence that machine's can't be creative makes me
| doubt my own creativity, to the extent that the argument is
| convincing.
| revolvingocelot wrote:
| I'm on the "if you can't tell the difference..." side, too,
| but the issue is the "10 tries" and the prompting. GPT-3
| has no ability to revise or reconsider or judge anything it
| writes. We're still safe, IMO, until the main loop goes
| >generate 10 "netcan comments" >drop 5 least
| conformant results >reword remaining comments
| several times >reassess rewordings, select best of
| each set >select 1 most conformant "netcan
| comment"
|
| Right now (AFAIK, anyway) all GPT-3 does is the first one.
| Think about how a human is creative -- lots of drafts, lots
| of dead ends, lots of borrowing, lots of revision. I
| appreciate that "reflection on its own output" is waaaay
| out of scope for a glorified, omni-contextual Markov chain,
| but I think we're safe, both from the threat of GPT-3 being
| "creative" in the same way we are (and therefore, maybe
| "alive" in the same way we are) and the threat of our own
| mental processes being revealed to be as merely
| computational as those of GPT-3.
| netcan wrote:
| Oh I don't disagree that the "best of gpt-3" on twitter
| is automated hyperbole machine.^ But I think at least in
| HN, a lot of people have looked at somewhat more
| objective sources too. The standard way to prove a trick
| shot is to film yourself do two or three in a row. I
| agree these are tricks, and a lot are unproven. Some are
| proven though, FWIW.
|
| Anyway, if the damn thing can do me 10%-60% of the time
| in a non trivial context... IDK, maybe this just becomes
| the default standard for "non trivial." and it's no big
| deal. It is disconcerting though. In any case, assuming
| GPT-3 progresses... there might be uses for software that
| does just the first of those things.
|
| All my above comment really means for sure is that NLP
| can now participate, simulate and perhaps instigate flame
| wars better. Flame wars were always one of the easy
| targets, so that's not much of a standard. Who knows
| though, maybe the road to AGI is a gradual refinement of
| a flamewar bot to a dialectic philosopher. Cheating on
| essays is gonna start getting fun.
|
| ^If a person uses the Tom Sawyer fence trick to automate
| a task, is that automation? If the machine does it, is
| the turn tables?
| revolvingocelot wrote:
| Absolutely. The "problem" essentially goes away with a
| cyborg approach: let GPT-3 generate its 10 netcan
| comments, then have a human do a little refining, maybe
| reframe the prompt, edit the result a little, and bam!
| Much scarier! Not that a sufficiently determined human
| couldn't ape someone's comment style, but GPT-3 is a
| force multiplier in the same way that sockpuppet
| management software is for the professional sockpuppeteer
| -- scales better, more effective, just makes everything
| easier.
|
| I've heard serious speculation that GPT-3 (or certainly
| its successors) might find utility for writers as a
| combination of a ghostwriter and Github Copilot.
|
| >^If a person uses the Tom Sawyer fence trick to automate
| a task, is that automation? If the machine does it, is
| the turn tables?
|
| It's not here yet, but the grim day on which I no longer
| communicate with anyone on the Internet for fear they're
| not actually a living conversational partner approaches.
| Even those I can cryptographically prove are people that
| I know will be suspects: "euurgh, I'm too busy to talk to
| this guy today, he's so boring. I'll just feed GPT-10 all
| our old conversations, tell it to be me, aaaand..."
| netcan wrote:
| Messaging apps already do a bare version of suggesting
| auto-replies. It's mostly it's a texting-while-driving
| aid, so they keep it concise and uncomplicated. Code
| completion already exists. Spam. Gradual steps have
| places to start stepping.
| hooande wrote:
| this is the only way to reliably use GPT-X in a
| production setting. you have to postprocesses the
| responses with a _second_ model, until you find one that
| is 1) reasonable 2) coherent 3) related to the topic of
| the prompt
| thereddaikon wrote:
| That fact that humans can be creative does not mean that
| all humans are. Nor does it mean its actually all that
| common. True creativity is very rare. Even people we
| normally describe as "creatives" are mostly working off of
| convention and are influenced by others.
|
| I've come to accept that 99% of what humanity does is
| derivative and mediocre. That's ok.
| netcan wrote:
| A machine sticking that mirror in our face is still gonna
| be weird.
| avgcorrection wrote:
| I'm predictable _ergo_ AI.
| netcan wrote:
| No. I'm predictable, ergo weak AI is predicting me...
| thus making me self conscious about by predictability.
| sdenton4 wrote:
| Spend some time with the slush pile at a magazine... Human
| creative output is also heavily filtered and selected for.
| skulk wrote:
| I think the point is that this slush pile needs to be
| automated as well before the hype around GPT-3 is realized.
| netcan wrote:
| It;s true that selection bias is a factor, and the way GPT-3 is
| distributed tends to aggravates that.
|
| Also, this is a human impersonator. It's not surprising that we
| find it personable and interesting. We find ceramic dolls
| personable and interesting. People can't really be trusted to
| evaluate human-looking things well. It's just to triggering to
| the instinctive biases of a social mammal. A gorilla
| impersonator would probably amaze gorillas in much the same
| way.
|
| That said, I _do_ think there 's something to these nlp systems
| that we didn't have before.
|
| The poke-poke stage of examining novel tech tends to be quirky,
| and most almost-insights are bogus. Stuff that's cool but
| useless is as compelling as useful stuff, at first. This isn't
| a long stage though. We usually gain a grounded understanding
| of a technology only when we find a use for it. Technology
| being used _for_ something is what makes it technology, for
| some definition of.
|
| Prompting & filtering by humans is how GPT-3 is "operated."
| That it's merely augmenting the creativity of the prompter is a
| philosophical concern. The practical one is that it needs
| prompting and filtering. Also, it's trivial to automate some
| kinds of prompting and filtering.
| anthk wrote:
| I got pre-cognition. Ahem.
| 1ris wrote:
| microlithography mi*crolithog*ra*phy the
| diagnostic or microscopy of embedded structures or tissues
| "biosensors with lens-guided microlithography"
|
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/microlithography/eyJ3...
|
| It does exist. And the definition is not so far of. It's about
| creation, not diagnostics, tho.
| outside1234 wrote:
| "biothrusting"
|
| ok, closing tab now, can't get better than that
| shadowgovt wrote:
| I'm a big fan of this one.
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/snarry/eyJ3IjogInNuYX...
| snarry very angry, angry, or angry ""Don't worry,"
| Mark read from the snarry voice"
| alfonsodev wrote:
| I got r/politics [1]. 1. a forum for discussion
| on social media to discuss articles, debates, etc "new
| users joined during his r/politics show".
|
| Could this be a tell or where the AI is being fed ? or something
| else?
|
| [1]https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/r%2Fpolitics/eyJ3Ijog..
| .
| schleck8 wrote:
| Usually text transformers use reddit posts for some training
| data alongside wikipedia and others.
|
| In The Pile, a large text dataset, Hackernews is included too
| if I'm not mistaken.
|
| https://media.arxiv-vanity.com/render-output/5356367/relativ...
| aktuel wrote:
| dipman dip*man a man who dipped his penis (of
| the head) into water "chad became a dipman (especially
| during the American Revolution)"
| robert_tweed wrote:
| Some of these could exist if we just start using them. The best
| one I've found: tootbox toot*box a
| place where something, especially music, plays "do you need
| a tootbox in your bedroom?"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/FKYq
| ineedasername wrote:
| Yes, they often read like words from an alternate reality where
| the chaos of language use & neologisms went just a little bit
| differently.
| squarefoot wrote:
| Seems a good name for a Mastodon client.
| [deleted]
| tialaramex wrote:
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/vWzR
|
| Nontourism seems like it already exists? I think if I ask people
| fluent in English what that means, they'd guess more or less the
| definition above.
| frozencell wrote:
| Is there a website like this - show a new word interesting word
| at each refresh - but for real words?
| wdfx wrote:
| Love it.
|
| ---
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| glugger
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/RxWg
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| ---
|
| superfessional
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ySHx
|
| ---
|
| spankety
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/LyH6
|
| ---
|
| discooper
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/LU7K
|
| ---
|
| deframicroscope
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/m6mD
| vzaliva wrote:
| Needs a link at the bottom to register it a domain :)
| wyldfire wrote:
| "clam!" (exclamation). The most entertaining part was the example
| of usage: "clam! It's so simple!"
| amelius wrote:
| So when will we see some serious applications for this GPT-3
| stuff?
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| On a lot of these, the definition is nonsense but the example
| sentence is totally plausible:
|
| "a freejam is an informal dance that breaks the rules of the
| music scene"
|
| I would totally buy that.
| holler wrote:
| bastoid
|
| bas*toid a large round or rounded fist-shaped organ, especially
| one that curves in front or near the anus
|
| "I found what looked like a giant bastoid tattoo near the
| entrance to the office"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/EnnD
| intricatedetail wrote:
| These AI generated pages are so annoying. Google results are
| extremely polluted with those. Often these are AI generated
| subtle adult content. It's disturbing when you search something
| about C++ you get pages about sisters inserting pointers. Often
| on the first page of results.
| wyldfire wrote:
| chickshit chick*shit a player scoring a
| goal, especially before an opponent has managed to seal the
| scoring "he was on his way to the whistle as a one-time
| chickshit"
| cupcake-unicorn wrote:
| Neat, some of these got pretty close:
|
| vascularitis vas*cu*lari*tis inflammation of
| the vascular system "a case of vascularitis"
| AlbertCory wrote:
| I tried out "portmanteau" a word which actually DOES exist and is
| kinda what you're going for here. From Wikipedia:
|
| _A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a blend of words in which
| parts of multiple words are combined into a new word, as in smog,
| coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.
| In linguistics, a portmanteau is a single morph that is analyzed
| as representing two underlying morphemes_
|
| Your tool says:
|
| "a word that probably exists; with an alternative definition made
| by a machine learning algorithm."
| claviska wrote:
| I got "boochy" and I'm going to use it today at standup: "having
| or showing a characteristic or exaggerated enthusiasm for a
| particular activity or situation"
| aliswe wrote:
| stochasticism does exist? i think ...
| klik99 wrote:
| I've long wondered about these "X does not exist" - are these
| generated on the fly or pregenerated and displayed from a list on
| the backend? If so, are they hand picked examples?
|
| Because the hit to miss ratio on this and other ones I've seen
| are just too good, literally unbelievable that it's just raw
| output without some kind of curation. defectariat de*fec*tariat a
| small class of people constituting a large voting bloc in
| elections, owing to insufficient awareness of the issues at stake
| "the failure of the social welfare system to recognize the
| defectariat"
|
| EDIT: If it is generated, isn't running the kind of datasets that
| produce this level of results extremely expensive? Is this trend
| some kind of advertising of skills for job hunt?
| PeterisP wrote:
| At least for the image generation sites, a common approach for
| performance reasons was to continuously regenerate the content
| and just fetch the latest one when requested. So they're fresh
| and do not repeat but are not unique if many users hit at the
| same time.
| dsr_ wrote:
| It took all of three tries to get an existing slang word.
|
| "clunge" - not safe for many working environments.
| knubie wrote:
| I know everyone's going to post their favorite word but this one
| made me chuckle: adjective. refereeless
| having or showing good judgment "the refereeless
| refereeing of the 1968 Summer Olympics"
| batch12 wrote:
| In the same vein:
|
| mammical - relating to mammals "mammical mammal food"
|
| Or
|
| tachycloid - a fossilized fingerless skull consisting mainly of
| rounded fragments, each containing paired digits
|
| I kinda want to see art generated from that last one as a
| prompt. Sounds terrifying.
| taberiand wrote:
| Perhaps pipe the definition through one of those AIs that
| generate art from text descriptions?
| DonHopkins wrote:
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ZpPr
|
| noun. yotang: a member of the Y chromosome "an orange yotang"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/Pe86
|
| noun. gigafag: a book of official records, especially one for
| President Lincoln "a great gigafag of official statistics"
| baq wrote:
| ludocystectomy lu*do*cys*tec*tomy a
| surgical operation after sexual intercourse in which a lictor
| appears to cause men to ovulate but then to become unconscious
| *"he had ludocystectomy to ease his symptoms to a lesser extent"*
|
| frankly, i'm quite amazed
| vdddv wrote:
| second word that appeared was 'regle' which is a very common
| French word
| AstroDogCatcher wrote:
| Appears to be a collection of perfectly cromulent words; someone
| should propulgate them into wider use in order to embiggen the
| vocabulary of our youth.
| nom wrote:
| approbated!
| hellbannedguy wrote:
| Dude--your putting shade on my shine. My peeps get my drift.
| kazinator wrote:
| ISO C++ is probably working on std::embiggen<T, traits,
| options, defaults>.
| ineedasername wrote:
| Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
| technothrasher wrote:
| Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
| new_guy wrote:
| I understood every word of that!
|
| What even makes a word 'real'? I think is the bigger question,
| if you can say something that everyone implicitly understands,
| is that not real?
| weatherlight wrote:
| perfectly cromulent indeed!
| egberts1 wrote:
| Stellarocious!
| adenozine wrote:
| I got
|
| ```
|
| noun. bronchym
|
| a word or phrase that has the same meaning as another word or
| phrase and that has a conjugated form
|
| "bronchym for i, j, k"
|
| a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by
| a machine learning algorithm.
|
| ```
|
| Quite apt, I'd say.
| skunkworker wrote:
| My second word "dehacked"
|
| rebuilt or altered to take its elements. "a dehacked set of
| computer programs"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/yVMF
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| 'hyperecessionalism
|
| hy*per*e*ces*sion*al*ism
|
| lack of optimism or optimism and typically resulting in reckless
| or even illegal speculation'
|
| So many new words
| arthurcolle wrote:
| I would love to see a youtube series of coders going through the
| process of getting a dataset and refining it into these as
| outputs. Probably not possible as a livestream but looking at the
| iterative process of doing the model development, eventually
| getting to the final generative process. (Brownie points for the
| web app part for web app dev neophytes :)
| geckyrc wrote:
| Googler:
|
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/googler/eyJ3IjogImdvb...
| mehrdada wrote:
| "an idle person" -- hahaha
| netcan wrote:
| cheeky jab at the competition
| rhizome wrote:
| I have a compulsion to create terms for arbitrary concepts such
| that recently I've considered learning German because it's easier
| to create new words (via compounds) there.
| jlukecarlson wrote:
| The generated "using it in a sentence" examples are often the
| funniest (and most absurd) part: chokebone
| choke*bone the muscle holding a prisoner down, used in
| controlling an animal or person such as a cat, dog, snake,
| snakebite, or spider "he managed to regain the chokebone
| and win the auction for his 12-year-old daughter"
| haxiomic wrote:
| I will make it my mission to ensure this word comes to exist
|
| noun. spiderspoop
|
| spi*der*spoop
|
| a flower of a small tree of the praline family that provides the
| basis of many vegetable roots. Spiders are often a source of
| vitamins and some essential essential minerals "assemble these
| pieces of spiderspoop moss to a large pot"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/SaSg
| heavyset_go wrote:
| An evil use of this would be to publish a faux dictionary.com
| site filled with fake words and definitions so that when someone
| searches to see if a word exists, they find that site.
| 0xBA5ED wrote:
| Mine was "deauthenticate". Very surprising it isn't considered a
| legitimate word.
| Vox_Leone wrote:
| Cool! A really nice domain-name / brand-name generator. Thank
| you.
| dado3212 wrote:
| excalculate ex*cal*cu*late present (something) as
| a number to prove a mathematical result, check an error, or
| settle an argument "excalculate your estimate with the
| data at hand"
| Kosirich wrote:
| "Monike" - (of an idea, idea, or person) not actually existing;
| unrealist
|
| This was the 5th word it generated
| dane-pgp wrote:
| Just Monike.
| donatj wrote:
| Over half of the first bunch I got came up in Wiktionary.
| mellavora wrote:
| This would be great for generating passphrases: "correct horse
| battery staple" becomes
|
| hippoglossia periceptor wharfoon northerl
|
| Good luck guessing that one, hunter76!
| jointpdf wrote:
| Frankly, I am feeling a bit targeted by my random word selection:
|
| ----
|
| pompkins 1. lack of vigor or impulse and
| ineffectiveness, as in an animal
|
| _" she knew he was wearing a pompkins"_
| jVinc wrote:
| This is as perfect example of just how horribly bad the typical
| "X does not exist" examples are, because here we all know the
| pool that is being used for training and can call out shitty
| "creations" for what they are. For instance I got "diaminoid" and
| "interchangerability". It's extremely transparent just how bad it
| is. But when people do it with faces, you don't see this, because
| you don't know the training set so you can't compare. Every
| attempt at showing "how great ML is at generating completely new
| X" owes it to the people wasting their time being fooled into
| thinking that it actually works to always also show the closest
| couple of entries from the training set.
| [deleted]
| 1_player wrote:
| Those are some very harsh words for a fun little side project.
| nsxwolf wrote:
| I got "underpenetration", which seems kinda like a real word.
| bozhark wrote:
| neat but can find obvious generic repeats based on specific
| syllable arrangements.
|
| human things lead to human things, plant things lead to plant
| things, etc.
| Cognitron wrote:
| gassler a person who maintains an attractive
| appearance by striking or beating up other people "she's
| been a good ass gassler"
|
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/gassler/eyJ3IjogImdhc...
| dubcanada wrote:
| noun. chokou a soft, creamy white sauce of soy sauce and white
| wine, typically typically made by pressing chili peppers in small
| pieces "a soy sauce flavor profile that mixes a littlechokou with
| pine nuts"
|
| Not even close, how would you make a white sauce with white wine
| and soy sauce. "Typiclly typically made by pressing chili peppers
| in small pieces"??? That doesn't even make sense lol
| keithwhor wrote:
| I actually got a real word, albeit with an incorrect definition.
| adjective. nonexclusionary nonex*clu*sion*ary
| of or concerning people or organizations that don't receive due
| respect "nonexclusionary criticism of religion" a
| word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a
| machine learning algorithm.
| jchoelt wrote:
| yadda used to emphasize the polite response
| indicated by an acknowledgment of a situation being discussed or
| acted on "she left after the yadda, and I wasn't ready to
| tell someone"
| yummybear wrote:
| This is a great project name generator.
| tzury wrote:
| Some make much sense such as
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/9fHe
|
| and
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/kdTL
| mindcrime wrote:
| "Shop smart... shop s mart!"
| bigodbiel wrote:
| Prisencolinensinainciusol
|
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
| egberts1 wrote:
| Bo! An invective. It's a word, why I never bo!
| Thorentis wrote:
| naxaloid - (of a person) having an axial tubercle at the back of
| the pelvis "a naked naxaloid parrot"
|
| I didn't realise parrots were people!
| ComodoHacker wrote:
| Next level: use these words in definitions of other words, not
| just examples.
| dudul wrote:
| My new project name generator!
| samford100 wrote:
| When this was posted last time, I read it as "This WOD (Workout
| of the Day) Does Not Exist". It inspired me to make a workout
| generator trained on workouts from crossfit.com using a
| character-level RNN.
|
| A year removed from it an I still laugh at some of the ridiculous
| workouts.
|
| https://thiswoddoesnotexist.com/
| sam0x17 wrote:
| I got piscushion -- a small bowl with a handle used for filling
| the body of a person's anus
| varelse wrote:
| I'm holding out for this website does not exist personally.
| turtlesoup wrote:
| 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/
| netcan wrote:
| Please say you take requests.
| turtlesoup wrote:
| Press "write your own" and it'll make up a definition for you
| :)
| swayvil wrote:
| does the definition exist or is that machine-generated too?
| turtlesoup wrote:
| Both definitions and words are machine generated!
| swayvil wrote:
| impressive
| dools wrote:
| 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"
| shaftway wrote:
| The alternate site is particularly relevant to me; the first
| two words I "made up" were "cromulent" and "embiggen".
|
| Well played.
| Yajirobe wrote:
| How long did it take to train this GPT-2 based model?
| turtlesoup wrote:
| 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.
| vinhboy wrote:
| Should have named it startupnamegenerator.com
| dymax78 wrote:
| 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.
| aasasd wrote:
| > _https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com_
|
| I'm now more interested in how the transitions are made than in
| the generators per se.
| revolvingocelot wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| not2b wrote:
| 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.
| throw10920 wrote:
| (you might want to read up on the use-mention distinction htt
| ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...)
| gberger wrote:
| Please could you explain the relevance of the article to
| the previous comment?
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| 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...
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| filtering objectionable content actually requires you to
| build a strong AI model capable of being offended itself,
| so it knows to hold its tongue in mixed company
|
| edit: lest i leave this comment totally useless, the
| chatbot engine "chatscript" has pretty good capabilities
| for disambiguating word meaning and classifying the
| meanings into "badword" and "verybadword" - its free/libre
| software and very high performance.
|
| https://github.com/ChatScript/ChatScript/
| turtlesoup wrote:
| 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.
| scoot wrote:
| See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962
| iechoz6H wrote:
| I got a captcha.
| vidar wrote:
| Solid domain generator
| H8crilA wrote:
| So true! It could be fine tuned more explicitly on existing
| domains and their popularity.
| quadrangle wrote:
| OMG, this can't be claimed as _never_ existing, what if it starts
| to exist, this is too realish:
|
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/microtoxin/eyJ3IjogIm...
| yblu wrote:
| Funny it does seem to already exist...
|
| https://www.juvaplus.com/2020/05/27/micro-toxin-a-technique-...
|
| https://beautyandbodylounge.com/microtoxin-for-lower-face-an...
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/3EUd
| micropharmacy mi*crophar*macy a large
| organization of people sharing a website "the blogosphere
| and micropharmacy collide"
|
| That's a pretty unintuitive definition.
| DerpyBaby123 wrote:
| I got words that do exist, for example "high-performance
| motor"[1] and "retrogradeness"
|
| [1]https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/sxFD
|
| That's fine, I guess, for a silly website - but it's not hard for
| me to imagine a company taking this idea, "AI/ML created X" and
| selling X's, even copyrighting them... when X already exists in
| the real world
| tonmoy wrote:
| I imagine in real life applications you'd need to add a bit of
| checks and balances around the ML output (e.g. cross check
| against a dictionary/copyright database)
| ARandomerDude wrote:
| Also, some words used to exist but have fallen out of use or
| morphed. For example "wif" is an archaic spelling of "wife,"
| but the definition given on the site is "an animal's fur or fur
| stock."
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/gvjU
| dragonwriter wrote:
| > even copyrighting them
|
| copyrighting isn't (at least, in US law) a distinct action
| people take. If it is subject to copyright, the it is
| copyrighted on creation by operation of law.
|
| > when X already exists in the real world
|
| To the extent that a thing is copyrightable by nature ,
| coincidental existence of an identical thing doesn't make it
| any less so. It might make it difficult to _prove_ it as a
| creation rather than a copy if challenged (or to prove that an
| alleged infringement was a copy of it rather than the identical
| doppelganger), though.
| xor99 wrote:
| The machine learning druids are at it again
| [deleted]
| dash2 wrote:
| I like the "make your own":
|
| fambulation fam*bu*la*tion a party without
| children "a fambulation party"
|
| fursty unpleasantly or racy "some of
| those old traditions have the whiff of a fursty sense of humor"
| harpiaharpyja wrote:
| adjective. unprestigious un*pres*ti*gious (of a
| person) strong, imposing, or impressive "an unprestigious
| figure during his lifetime"```
|
| (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/u749)
|
| Hmm. I think it might need some more work. I mean, there's a
| strong argument that unprestigious is not a word, but if it was,
| that certainly would not be the meaning.
| andruc wrote:
| One would think that about inflammable too
| Ratalala wrote:
| Or unhulled
| itsyaboi wrote:
| This word most definitely does exist:
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/SidH
| kazinator wrote:
| There is only poor, easily dismissable argument that
| unprestigious is not a word.
|
| The un- prefix is a highly productive morpheme English;
| dictionaries would only waste space by listing every possible
| un- word.
| saghm wrote:
| I'm not sure why, but "non-prestigious" feels more "correct"
| to me. I know that those prefixes aren't identical in meaning
| though, so both could be words with slightly different
| meanings.
| bduerst wrote:
| What about objects that cause you to lose your recently
| acquired prestige?
| [deleted]
| abraae wrote:
| Or it might be OK. After all, loosening and unloosening your
| shoe laces is the same thing.
| ineedasername wrote:
| Also inflammable and flammable.
|
| English is strange.
| UncleSlacky wrote:
| Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
| avgcorrection wrote:
| Strange and dumb are actually synonyms in this particular
| context.
| itronitron wrote:
| https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-
| wife...
| superjan wrote:
| It guessed a few of my passwords!
| lqet wrote:
| noun. kolsch 1. unwanted drinking in or as a means of
| controlling one's drinking
|
| As a German, I don't see anything wrong here.
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/5mgC
| ethomson wrote:
| frood: noun (in dogs) a thickly furred section
| between the forelegs, covering the upper upper surface of the
| hind legs; a hindleg "a ferret with an astonishing, yet
| brief, frood"
|
| Douglas Adams is rolling over in his grave.
| ineedasername wrote:
| _Douglas Adams_
|
| Good call! Many of these do seem to have an _Adams_ tone to
| them.
| UncleSlacky wrote:
| It does seem to owe something to The Meaning of Liff.
| zemo wrote:
| probably a lot of these in there: words with an edit distance of
| 1 from a real word where the "fake word" is too close to be
| interesting. one I found was "subdivison", which I thought just
| said "subdivision": https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/uYDQ
|
| also "jocky", which sure doesn't literally exist but it's hard to
| argue that it's meaningfully dissimilar to "jockey":
| (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/J8RS) anyway this is pretty
| fun all the same.
|
| in another episode of "algorithms doing a racism" I landed
| "cacadian", whose definition is "a black person" (we're ok so
| far) but the example sentence was "I'm the worst cacadian up
| here", which... https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/iTVc
|
| "nondestructable" (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/bBD3) is
| given the definition "of negligible quality or severity" but
| definitely gets used (spelled nondestructible) to mean "a thing
| that can't be destroyed" when talking about games with
| destructible environments
|
| "downcycled" is definitely a word
| (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/JRd8)
|
| innocuous ones I liked include unclary
| (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ibNn), saucescent
| (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/4VTH), nonboreal
| (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/eCqw).
|
| I think it's pretty fun.
| rory wrote:
| This one's pretty nice:
|
| driftly (of water) flowing in a slow, sweeping
| way "a driftly waterfall"
| [deleted]
| prionassembly wrote:
| "Algebrically": in a way that shows extreme emotion.
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/vtAj
| rebuilder wrote:
| The few I tried didn't make much sense. Like:
|
| electrochromium elec*trochromium an extremely thin blue or red
| spot or color "the scene had a vivid green electrochromium"
| luxpir wrote:
| Would fit well into much sci-fi writing tbh!
| lordnacho wrote:
| This is pretty good. There's a logic to language that allows this
| (along with all sorts of other domains).
|
| I remember trying this with a friend of mine back in high school,
| making up realistic sounding words in order to chun each other,
| making the other believe it was a real word. The natural path is
| to go Latin (chromozymatic), but sometimes you find a simple
| sound that ought to be a word.
| schoen wrote:
| "Chromo" and "zyme" are both Greek rather than Latin, though.
| lordnacho wrote:
| Oh god I hope my teachers don't see this. This is even worse
| than polyamory and meritocracy.
| Workaccount2 wrote:
| Is creativity going to be the first major human trait upended by
| AI?
|
| I feel like the trope has always been "But the robots will never
| be able to express beauty/art/music/prose like humans". However
| it seems that all early AI is focused on and doing surprisingly
| well at creative pursuits. If someone rattled off words like this
| I would be amazed at their creativity.
| robbedpeter wrote:
| We're finding that stuff we thought would be impossibly hard is
| subject to brute force using simple constructs, and stuff we
| thought would be simple is proving incredibly difficult.
|
| Moravec's paradox in action:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
| dan_mctree wrote:
| Funnily the stated definition seems to fall for its own trap.
| Perception, here named as a particularly hard thing is
| something AI is starting to get pretty good at. Mobility lags
| behind a little, but we've seen some incredible
| demonstrations there too.
|
| Perhaps it's always the things that are on our awareness
| horizon which seem hard but end up solvable. What's next?
| Perhaps long term planning, interference and on the fly
| learning? And then what are the difficult things beyond that
| horizon, the challenges we can't even see yet?
| jstx1 wrote:
| First trait? What about computation, memory and logical
| reasoning? Computers crush people at all of these and have been
| doing them so well for so long that you don't think of it as
| AI. Still, definitely not the first human trait that computers
| can beat.
|
| Creativity is hard to talk about in this context for a bunch of
| reasons - it's hard to define, I don't think it's that
| impressive in humans, AI models are already decent at creative
| tasks like image and music generation but those are all based
| on training examples...
| freejazz wrote:
| I wonder how long until an AI can do well on the logical
| reasoning section of the LSAT. My guess is not anytime soon.
| lanerobertlane wrote:
| a bit NSFW:
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/HgkP pussygasm
| pussy*gasm excessive or erotic fondness for one's genitals
| "he shared a cocky but disgusting puke and was subjected to even
| more pussygasm in his younger years"
| ksaj wrote:
| Although the definition is totally different than the way we
| used to use the word.
| anton96 wrote:
| I'm really surprised that nobody speaks about sudoflowerus more
| often!
|
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/sudoflowerus/eyJ3Ijog...
| anton96 wrote:
| Owh almost literally cromulent!
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tramulant/eyJ3IjogInR...
| not2b wrote:
| Might want to add a filter. The seventh or eighth word I got was
| a racial slur: n-word bar (compound word I don't care to type).
|
| That's the problem you get when you feed the whole Internet into
| your training data.
| hsnewman wrote:
| This idea is not new.
| xvilo wrote:
| Show me 4 of the same sites.
| 01100011 wrote:
| See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet and probably hundreds
| of incarnations before that. It's still kinda neat though.
| thebean11 wrote:
| this "this does not exist" does not exist
| scoopr wrote:
| eletronic (of a word, expression, or development) affected by
| chance but more likely to cause sorrow or disappointment "a vivid
| eletronic expression of grief"
|
| Too real.
| forinti wrote:
| That would make an interesting word game: mix in unusual words
| and you have to guess which ones are real.
|
| I bet some would get adopted eventually.
| selfhoster11 wrote:
| There's a version of Scrabble that's played with made-up words
| only.
| bklaasen wrote:
| "The game comprised two teams of three (a captain and two
| guests) who would compete to earn points by determining the
| correct definitions to obscure words. The teams took turns to
| give three definitions, one true and two bluffs, while the
| other team attempted to determine which was correct. If the
| correct choice was made the team earned one point, if not, the
| bluffing team earned one point. Both teams took turns turns
| bluffing and determining definitions.
|
| Examples of words used in the show, taken from a 1972 book
| published in connection with the it, include "queach",
| "strongle", "ablewhacket", "hickboo", "jargoon", "zurf",
| "morepork", and "jirble". "Queach", for instance, was defined
| as "a malicious caricature", "a cross between a quince and a
| peach" and "a mini-jungle of mixed vegetation". The first and
| second of those were bluffs. "
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Bluff
| xd wrote:
| "a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by
| a machine learning algorithm."
|
| I've minimal understanding of AI/ML but from what I think I know,
| isn't it all based on probability and therefore the quote above
| that these words don't exist is.. possibly wrong?
| skeaker wrote:
| It wouldn't be far fetched to assume that it checks output
| against a real dictionary
| [deleted]
| tekstar wrote:
| This is a really solid band name generator
| rectang wrote:
| I use novel words for debug printing, and for a while I was
| tweeting them:
|
| https://twitter.com/debooger
| davidholdeman wrote:
| I got "reconnaisance", which is how I spelled reconnaissance once
| in a spelling bee.
| astura wrote:
| Funny, I got chown which is definitely a word that exists for
| some definition of "word."
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown
| gamerDude wrote:
| My word was a bit disturbing. Meat cooked in a sauce of raw meat
| over ice. Yum.
|
| Plumata:
|
| a dish with layers of meat, vegetables, or seafood cooked in a
| sauce of raw meat, vegetables, and herbs, typically over ice and
| typically served with other fresh ingredients
| concinds wrote:
| Sounds delicious.
|
| I just got "mycobiology", with a perfectly correct definition.
| I'm guessing its dictionary is incomplete, and it reinvented
| that word on its own.
| Tade0 wrote:
| Sounds like something straight from the Don't Starve
| (videogame) cookbook.
| ljm wrote:
| Similarly:
|
| parceleducate parcele*d*u*cate transfer (the intestines) into
| offspring, typically as a sacrifice
|
| Sounds like an SCP ritual.
|
| SCP-6121
|
| Object class, Keter.
|
| Upon the birth of offsprings SCP-6121-A, subject will feed
| SCP-6121-A via the process of parceleducation. Intestinal
| matter will be sourced from the closest biological entity
| within a 300 metre radius, replacing the organic tissue with an
| organ SCP-6121-B.
|
| The Church of Featherless Birds is known to invoke
| parceleducation as part of its initiation ceremony. Those
| possessing SCP-6121-B are known as disciples of the Vulture
| King.
| ineedasername wrote:
| If they haven't trained off SCP Foundation material, they
| should.
|
| (Or _someone_ with a bit of spare time should. Then again,
| maybe they have, and this is the 7th time I 've made that
| suggestion).
| pesfandiar wrote:
| I would try this "beef ceviche" dish if I knew it was from a
| safe source. Can't be worse than rare steak.
| ljm wrote:
| Steak tartare might be a good first step before this.
| ineedasername wrote:
| Steak tartare is one of the most underrated dishes. I
| prefer mine after a few minutes over a flame grill, a piece
| of cheese, and a round roll. That can turn it into
| something that I really think would catch on if people
| tried it.
| temac wrote:
| Yeah so on the disturbing scale, I think this one is quite
| good:
|
| extroraptor
|
| ex*tro*rap*tor
|
| a device by which a fetus is detached from another animal by
| means of an entrails lasso and inserted in other muscles
|
| "underhanded methods of caressing the fetus with an extroraptor
| device"
| apricot wrote:
| You had me at entrails lasso.
| VMG wrote:
| > elegium
|
| > a substance or book called, in ancient Rome, the sacred
| treasury of a god > "the temple is situated or held by the
| elegium in the church"
|
| does exist but means something else
|
| at least here: https://en.pons.com/translate/latin-german/elegium
| standeven wrote:
| This definition mentions a boner. jerrybob
| a hard game chicken of the American game turkey, related to boner
| and eaten raw. "I'll give the jerrybob another shot"
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I once dreamt a word, and when I woke up and looked it up, it
| didn't exist anywhere. I wonder if I refresh this page long
| enough, whether it would eventually appear.
| amelius wrote:
| You might as well wait for a monkey to type it on a typewriter.
| notRobot wrote:
| In theory, yes. But it would take an infinite amount of time,
| unless you're like SUPER lucky and get it on the third refresh
| or something :D
| usmannk wrote:
| In theory, no. There is no reason to think this neural net
| will output every possible string given enough time. That'd
| be quite unexpected.
| vvarren wrote:
| First word I got was disability!
| kurbli wrote:
| I got "minitel"
| mmastrac wrote:
| I just got "dispouse" which would be the perfect name for a
| divorce startup.
| heydenberk wrote:
| I've always wanted to explore the word2vec space to find the most
| sparsely populated region, then (assuming you can train some sort
| of reverse vec2word model) coin that word that the English
| language was apparently sorely lacking.
| Der_Einzige wrote:
| It's too bad that even the best dimensionality reduction
| algorithms still really suck. Visualizing and inspecting latent
| spaces is super sweet and eventually I think it will become
| extremely useful and common...
| ineedasername wrote:
| This took about 8 seconds to come back. A little longer and I'd
| think this was just a mechanical turk front-end with especially
| witty workers taking the jobs:
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/LdrP
| zomglings wrote:
| I read it as "This World Does Not Exist", which would be a
| _fantastic_ NFT collection.
| vmception wrote:
| the .com domain looks like it was registered a few hours ago
|
| Hope that was you!
| zepto wrote:
| This NFT is not real.
| praptak wrote:
| It could also be an article on any of: psychology, physics,
| philosophy or Buddhism.
| paul_f wrote:
| Create an NFT and then trademark the invented word.
| maartenscholl wrote:
| I got microsimulation, which exists and even has a Wikipedia page
|
| Link /vL5R
| kurbli wrote:
| I got "minitel" for the word that does not exists which is kind
| of weird on HN...
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| bruce343434 wrote:
| I also have an interesting one, 'f.head'
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/XB2q
| p2hari wrote:
| cool.. some new JS frameworks and npm packages can take
| inspiration :)
| devjam wrote:
| transpile [1]
|
| > combine (vehicle parts) with another person's
|
| > "a car with both legs transpiled to fill the remaining area"
|
| Hrmmm.
|
| [1]
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/transpile/eyJ3IjogInR...
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