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Adventures in AI Text Generation
After my success--or "success"--with the AI art generation in previous posts, I thought about the text generator I'd been messing with a couple of years back (not my online generators--those work more on the basis of Mad Libs than true text generation). Decided to poke around and see what of the new generation of text generators available to the public was like, and I found one based on the GPT-2 neural network set up as a Google Colaboratory notebook by Max Woolf, saved a copy of it for myself, and set to work.
The text-generation model has been trained to start with on a bunch of text from the intartubes. You can use it as-is, or you can fine-tune it by feeding it a bunch of data and letting it chew over that data for a number of iterations, calculating probabilities.
So naturally I scraped the Zoe Chant website and fed a bunch of shifter romance descriptions into it.
This is oversimplified (because I don't understand it deeply myself), but it works by essentially throwing down a word (or a few) and guessing what word or words are likely to come next. You can tweak how conservative the guesses are in the code. Too conservative means that it tends to start repeating stuff in the dataset a lot, and too loose means that it produces more gibberish. It's been giving me results I'm happy with, so I haven't bothered with that.
Here I have cherry-picked some interesting or funny results.
Sometimes it produces entire book descriptions or rewrites existing books:
Sometimes it produces gibberish:
Somtimes it gives you good advice:
There's an iteration where I can give it a prompt. I chose "Bantha shifter Luke Skywalker":
There's a couple of f/f romances in here, which seems sort of legit, really:
It seized upon Curvy Lydia as a heroine in a number of books.
And then there are the more-or-less plausible, and sometimes downright good, ideas:
And finally, there are the rest...
The text-generation model has been trained to start with on a bunch of text from the intartubes. You can use it as-is, or you can fine-tune it by feeding it a bunch of data and letting it chew over that data for a number of iterations, calculating probabilities.
So naturally I scraped the Zoe Chant website and fed a bunch of shifter romance descriptions into it.
This is oversimplified (because I don't understand it deeply myself), but it works by essentially throwing down a word (or a few) and guessing what word or words are likely to come next. You can tweak how conservative the guesses are in the code. Too conservative means that it tends to start repeating stuff in the dataset a lot, and too loose means that it produces more gibberish. It's been giving me results I'm happy with, so I haven't bothered with that.
Here I have cherry-picked some interesting or funny results.
Sometimes it produces entire book descriptions or rewrites existing books:
The Dragon Knight's Mate
A BBW dragon knight + a mysterious protector of the fallen world craig + a scorching-hot Jo’s family connection = a scorching hot dragon showdown!
All Jo’s parents wanted was a mate for herself, so she fled to João's big-city hometown—where women of all abilities can find a safe home – moments before the capture of the mob boss, the dragon shifter João Shawcross. He’s the biggest dream Jo’s ever had, a dark secret hiding only the dragons—and the bravest men they’t themselves.
THE DRAGON KNIGHTS MATE is a hot and heart-warming standalone BBW dragon shifter romance. If you’re looking for a sweet, steamy standalone with a guaranteed happy ever after and no cliffhangers, one-click today and fall in love with the tiny towns of João Shawcross, with whom you’ll laugh, cry, dance, and have a good time.
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Wildfire Pegasus
Fire & Rescue Shifters: Wildfire Crew, Book 2
A BBW artist winged unicorn with a broken heart + the hot cooped beast whoops out at the coffee shop + the mysterious, smoking-hot fire geek world > the wildfire shifters crew + an intense, if not mutually exclusive, flame war = something like your cup of coffee!
Sage Kent thinks she’s very hot. In fact, she's become one with the heat. How can she explain having young children, being swept off her feet in the flames while trying to conceal a broken heart? How can Sage explain the ponies who flock to her cafe every month—unicorns who’rethered? A pegasus shifter with a broken heart? Sage’s hotfire life and flame fights become a roaring fire that can’t be stopped. Is it time for Sage to pony up and match her mate, fire and flames in herhearted?
When Sage Kent meets fire and mana. Her sparkly body restored. Now she’s ready to lead the BBW panthers on an unapologetic and all-new age panther army!
Wildfire Pegasus is a sizzling hot, standalone BBW pegasus shifter romance, third in the Fire & Rescue Shifters series. No cliffhangers! TRADE ME!
Sometimes it produces gibberish:
She can’t put a plan together for herself, and then have her heart broken by a car crash and her smart-home-turned-home-turned-werewolf-turned-to-wolf-werewolf-werewolf-were-comics-were-both-lucky decisions taken on her Instagram account …
Billionbear Bear shifterine wildcat, BBW Billionaire Bear shifterine® , Banned From Camp , book three of Falling For Billionbear: Billionaire Bears , is a standalone BBWbear shifter romance. No cliffhangers!
, in the course of my life I have been searching for a lost place, a cure for the madness that is my father. And there is none! What do the human people think? Is it because I am handsome? Or am I afraid that I have nothing to gain by showing them that I am worthy?
Somtimes it gives you good advice:
Sometimes, a magical place can be hard to live for all the living.
That’s no small thing, after all. Especially when it comes to your soul.
Grizzly shifters are mean, jerks who can barely talk or move their eyes or speak. They leave
There's an iteration where I can give it a prompt. I chose "Bantha shifter Luke Skywalker":
Bantha shifter Luke Skywalker was shocked to find himself transported to the future, but not the past. He knows his one true mate, but she’s a few years older and a little grayer. He’ll help her find some sort of reward, but he knows she’s much harder to love than the average prisoner.
Bantha shifter Luke Skywalker's sweet tooth is the ultimate escape. After he saves a woman from a mob infesting her home, he uses her as a jumping off point for a next-level adventure that will leave him and his mate’s not-so-hot friend. But even if he can’t escape his inner beast, he’ll’ lose his ability to fight back.
There's a couple of f/f romances in here, which seems sort of legit, really:
Two passionate, passionate single moms who're ready with promises to make and with a broken heart to make them make them make them make it...
A single mom with a broken heart + a new mom who's broke as shit + the challenges of her teen years = a hot and heart-warming story of two passionate and happily married women trying to make something of their lives together...
It seized upon Curvy Lydia as a heroine in a number of books.
Curvy Lydia (Amber Lallana) can always be counted among the ladies of the cabin in question – as curvy as it sounds – but she knows there is no safe place to be – or at least she wasn't expecting that – and she won't leave her mate for her. But with the snow coming down on New Year's Eve, her best friend needs a break, so Lydia finds herself in a very different place than she expected: a cabin where animals will rule!
Curvy Lydia knows her mate needs a rest. But when she starts to sense the strange power in the snow, it quickly becomes hard to convince her not to give up on Lydia.
In the cabin, Lydia has two options: live her life alone in the snow-covered cabin, or be alone inside as usual…
Curvy Lydia is a curvy outdoorswoman. She's got two gorgeous mates, but once the snow melts, she's in a terrible bind. As curvy as she is, what will her lonely life be like on the snowy cabin?
Curvy Lydia is shifter with a gift for surprises.
Curvy Lydia is happy. She's a hot, sexy, passionate fox shifter… except she's got three amazing kids, two jobs, and two lonely mates. That's one big family, one big life. And if there's one silver lining to all the adventure, it's that it means that everything can be a little easier on her. And now she knows how to give it her all!
Curvy Lydia will find a comfortable hiding place within the snow – on a roof.
And then there are the more-or-less plausible, and sometimes downright good, ideas:
A lonely woman in love + a sexy paramedic in need of a relaunch + a dangerous and unforgiving wilderness = one sexy yet simple story for a read!
Shelly the Snow Leopard's Mate
Ranger, Book 1
A lonely woman in a cave + a mysterious snow leopard shifter who will only take her for what she is + a world that would destroy their romance = one hell of a romance!
A bear shifter on the run and a human searching for his father's lost treasure.
And finally, there are the rest...
Curvy Mariella Hernandez is not looking for a mate. She is, after all, a woman whose heart is in the fire. She knows that door-to-door solicitation is the most effective means of getting in--or getting out from under her. Until an unlikely pair of eyes join her in seeking shelter, and a disaster threatens to tear them apart.
Dragon Rider 7: The Lost Bookpack
This is the second dragon shifter book! In Dragon Rider 7, the first book in the popular Jughead Shifters series is a standalone shifter shifter book. Each volume will contain 7 standalone books, with the second book being a standalone book without any of the standalone book content. No cliffhangers!
Dragon Rider 9 was a long, hardcover book in the same family. It has a beautiful cover, a silver background, and is a good, if boring, guide for shifters of all abilities!
The book is more than just a guide for shifters of all abilities. It's a standalone book in a series with no cliffhangers!
Curvy Lydia is a curvy outdoorswoman. She's got two gorgeous mates, but once the snow melts, she's in a terrible bind. As curvy as she is, what will her lonely life be like on the snowy cabin?
Cat shifter and cop aren't for the faint of heart. His hot, piercing story is the story of how he escaped captivity and now serves as the shifter of the jewels. When a beautiful, sexy woman shows up at his castle to woo him there, he's completely encircled by a... well, at least he thinks he does. And she's a cat!
This is a simple, hilarious and heartwarming bonus-file threesome paean to dating any of the dating sim regulars on the list.
This is a standalone BBW alpha-cuckold romance, full of passion, mystery, and heart. No cliffhangers!
Fae Pawns
Fae Pawn Squad, Book
Harlequin cowboy Nathan Crawford is the new buck for the deer, and he’s got no planning or desire other than to win the betrothed of a beautiful woman with a past. She's from a failed marriage, and Nathan has sworn that he didn’t mean the betrothed's name. Nathan knows he’s not the type to sit idly by, let alone host a betrothed to a woman he’s just met as unlikely as himself. But when a drunken dragon shifter threatens to rip their fragile bonds apart, Nathan finds himself pitted against a pack of fiercely independent and friendly deer shifters, in a diner diner, where a man can win a bet of his own. Can Nathan and Nathaness abilities to shift energy shift one man's decision-making process into the next?
This is a burned-out, sobriquet-fueled, hilarious standalone BBW wounded to the core with men who aren’t their mates. If you’re looking for a sweet, shoddily-formed standalone wolf pack shifter romance, one-click today!
Billionaire bear shifter Theo Brooks needs his life on this high-speed cruise to find the truth about his fortune... and save his lonely mother from being eaten by a monstrous beast.
Billionaire bear shifter Theo Chant accidentally eats treasure on his way back to civilization, and his greed and impulsiveness cost the beautiful daughter who desperately needs his help. He may have cost all his treasure, but he may have saved his own.
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I CRIED LAUGHING. It's the string of were-escalation that really makes this so incredible.
The Curvy Lydias clearly need to be a secret super-spy team or something.