Website lets people uses powerful AI to generate made up up words like ‘rebutis’ or ‘gggrxxx’ and their corresponding definitions
- ThisWordDoesNotExist lets people generate made up words and definitions
- The site uses a powerful AI made by the Elon Musk-backed OpenAI
- It was trained on the 8 million most upvoted Reddit posts
A new AI-powered website is letting people create their own make-believe vocabularies with just the click of a button.
The website, called ThisWordDoesnNotExist.com, from Thomas Dimson, who formerly worked for Instagram, not only generates make-believe words with just a click, it conjures their equally as fake definitions.
For instance, ‘rebutis’ means ‘a statement that has been repeated again [and] again’ while ‘nexperience’ means ‘lack of interest or enjoyment; frugality.’
The AI was trained on words harvested from 8 million of the most upvoted Reddit posts and is capable of recognizing patterns.
As noted by The Verge, in this case the AI was able to find which words appear next to each other most often and create new sentences as well as definitions and words.
The website uses an AI called GPT-2 which was developed by the the Elon Musk-backed company OpenAI and is used to power similar sites like ThisArticleDoesn’tExist.com
The AI is capable of taking a snippet of text and extrapolating that small piece of information into a larger document.
OpenAI unveiled GPT-2 in February but stopped short of releasing it over concerns that it might be used to proliferate spam and fake news.
While OpenAI claims that its artificial intelligence has not been abused, researchers have cautioned against making systems like theirs public.
In February, after the company announced it had developed GPT-2, a debate over AI ethics began to percolate in the community and continues to echo in similar fields like video manipulation tools commonly referred to as deepfakes.