Can YOU write like a robot?
Can YOU distinguish between AI and human written text??
Let’s find out by writing/generating our own Bots of New York!
During the last stream, chat voted that we write our own Bots of New York.
Watch the video here or scroll down to see what we wrote.
Bots of New York is a parody of Humans of New York, where people go around and interview random strangers in New York City, getting a snapshot and brief life story from them.
Bots of New York instead uses AI-generated pictures of people along with AI-generated stories from them. They are hilarious and definitely check them out here on Facebook.
So we generated some AI-faces of our own (like we’ve done before) and I even put chat to the test to see if they could tell which stories I wrote vs. which stories robots wrote. Check out the video to see those yourself and test if you can tell which are which.
Here’s the faces we generated and wrote about together, along with some highlights:
#1. Ginny
ROBOT-CREATED
I’ve always wanted a hamster. I’m not sure if you know this, but I hate my fingers and everything that touches my fingers. Not to mention, hamsters are cute and cuddly and I like being cuddly and cute. This is not a work-related post and not at all about the state of the world or even the world of banking. Today, I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the world’s most famous harpists. I know this because she mentioned it in one of her songs. What’s a harpist, you ask? I don’t have a name for her, but I’m sure.SCOTT
My favorite animal is probably the moose. Every time I think about them I just can’t wait to go to Moose Land. Have you heard of it? It’s neat. In Mooseland there are five different rides you can take, at least two of which are themed with the mighty Moose. I think the others are like, dolphins? It doesn’t matter. I have a coupon for half off your first Moose Meal today, would you like to experience nirvana with me?ALYX
I like vampires, one thing is certain, one of my dogs does, too, and I’d like to have a few of the real, sparkly – eyed variety. Maybe I could at least get her one at Christmas. When the mom says, “Does your dog like bone?” I’ll tell her she’s welcome to my dogs anytime, but as to the possibility of getting her one of her own, she’s out of luck. She’ll just have to love mine. Is it that I’ve grown so used to the chaos that I’m ready for it again?COZYROGERS
Hello I’m Ginny. No I am not a weasel so don’t ask me that, you are not as clever I thought and actually I don’t want to talk about this anymore. I struggle with mirrors sometimes. My hands are very small and like, you won’t understand even if I explain. But everything changed when I learned to love myself.
#2. Jenny
ROBOT-CREATED
AII like to be happy. This seems like the perfect time to work on myself. If I live here, I won’t take the Bus anymore, and I will have to walk. I will have to walk up a big hill, twice a day. It will be hard. I have bad knees and a bad hip. Maybe I will get a bike. I was riding my bike today and I came to the point where there was a sharp right turn, and the next block over was a steep hill. I decided to stop at the bar on the corner and have a soda. My head felt woozy, and I had this feeling of anxiety in.SCOTT
My grandmother has been knitting me the same quilt for over thirty years. Every year at Christmas it’s like, hey grandma how’s the quilt, and she says nothing. I don’t mind. It’s because gathering is a time for warmth around the table and fine wine. Sometimes I like to bite off the glass a little bit and crunch it down, always makes the family laugh around the table. Except grandma. She’s been dead for over thirty years.JOE
When I had my sweet sixteen in a rotting pineapple, my dad named Dad, bought me a new birth certificate. Now I’m a new person and my name is Unknown. We have a unknown-dad relationship. I drew on my new certificate with geometrical shapes of McDonalds food. And it transformed into a grift certificate. Now I own a franchise devoted to McScamming.667
One time I swallowed a grapefruit whole. My professor in economics explained that the market share for any given stock was related that that product’s palpability. I thought he said pulp. I’ve always liked orange juice with pulp. It’s brain food. I own 12% of minute maid now, and I my grapefruit swallowing act bumped the stock by thirty cents.
#3. Gerald
ROBOT-MADE
I’ve been in the brisket business since the great grilling disaster of ’09. I’ve rebuilt my smoker a number of times, every time buying something better, faster, and more clever than the last time. Every time, one of the factors I usually attribute to trouble with brisket turns out to be the result of one of my extra-brazen blunders. A minor setback that has sent me reeling off the cuff into something new, even more risky, even more underhanded.In retrospect, it’s just the way it has to be, doesn’t it? This is what I’ve learned from years of failure.SCOTT
Hey buddy, can I borrow five bucks? I promise I’ll give it right back I just need to go, like, buy a ticket to Memphis real quick. That’s where Frank lives, he said he knows a guy that’ll help you get real cash real fast. Home Depot, that’s where the money is. You can spend all days in that orange vest hanging around in the lightbulb aisle, making hand over fist, and no one’s the wiser. Just watch out for those mangey diagonal toilets.667
I’m a firm believer that psychedelics can cure humanity. I think the real cure is compassion. We are all connected, which is why a class two misdemeanor is not significant. I got my G. E. D. last year, and I plan to teach philosophy at my local college. If you can think it, you can believe it, and I believe so many things. But I would have never made it without support from my close friends and my neighbor, Anna. Peace to the world, and just be silly with it.ITANSHI
I was 14 when my dad, a former police officer, pulled over for something as mundane as pulling an id. I wasn’t a law enforcement officer. When I was 17, I was arrested for driving with a suspended license for no valid reason, for driving with less than a four-pack of cigarettes, for driving with more than 50 milligrams of alcohol. I was released as soon as I’d been convicted of a felony in that case. I was released. I was in prison. I couldn’t do anything about it anymore. It was over.
#4. Andrea
ROBOT-MADE
Can you believe that they raised the price of the salad sandwich by a dollar? Do they have no hearts or souls? I love a good salad too! My son has now started his business, well part of it anyway. The other part he gets a contract with already, however, he has been thinking of doing some photography as well. Now that the weather has been nice, he thought of taking a picnic lunch and taking a photo of a lake, he has a couple spots picked out. It is a cool thing that he is doing, and I am glad that he is doing something new. Now the weather can be nasty and rainy.SCOTT
Want to see me fit this whole cheeseburger in my mouth? I can do it, you know. Ever since field day in third grade when Betty-Anne bet me two whole bathroom passes that I couldn’t. Well I showed her. Free lunch and free flushes. That’s what we called them back then. You ever wonder where words come from? I think we should look to the sky. That’s where most of the answers come from. But not the stars. Stars can go eat a dick.COZY
My father named me Andrew because he wanted to have a son. But then he went to work and stopped paying attention to me. Mom raised me as a girl dispite dad’s wishes. When he came home and saw my doll collection he was furiously sweating and as angry as a giraffe that stepped on a tack. He yelled really loud and me and mom ran away. While we were living on the streets I learned to be a hacker and got lots of bread. Finally I got the self-esteem to tell mom that I was a boy all along.JUSTINTOONZ
I take pleasure in the displeasure of children. I work at a library. It’s my sworn duty to keep the establishment quiet. Whacking children is part of the job. If parents don’t like it, they can leave too. I don’t need their service. Young adults, newlyweds, and elderly people are my favorite. They know how to stay quiet. Elderly people especially. One day I found an old balled man dead in the corner. Perfect. No sound from him. I drive a Honda civic to and from work. Cars are noisy, too.ALYX
My name is Andrea Fischbach and I’m working on Hinting Through Life. I’m married to Jason, a lot of people who know me would agree that I’m a fickle friend, sister, daughter, etc. I love getting ideas from others, whether it be for books, movies, work or friends. In 2009, my cousin gave me a puzzle of life. It’s the work of Jamie Carie and when I saw it, I was immediately hooked. What I love about it is how it allows you to see things from other perspectives.
Be sure to check out the video from some AMAZING dramatic readings of the bot stories!
If you want to join us and help write a story by trolling in chat, or share your own writing for feedback, then we’d love to have you join us on Twitch.
And you missed the stream, you can still watch them on the YouTube channel or watch the full stream reruns.
Hope to see you next time, friend!
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