Inspiration
There are a lot of concerns about how convincing neural network generated text can be, as some people think it can be too convincing. We wanted to see how creative it could be at writing stories.
What it does
Based on what a user inputs, Storyteller will give a 200 word long story, based off of the reddit comments from /r/writingprompts it was trained on. This gives the user a strong starting scene to help them with their writing process. It also clues people in to the capabilities of neural networks through a creative and potentially funny story beginning.
How we built it
We first used Praw to scrape reddit comments into a txt file, then trained GPT-2 simple. We designed a simple form for the website, hosted it using google cloud services.
Challenges we ran into
The hardest part of this project was turning it into a website. Both hosting and connecting the front end to backend were challenges our team had not previously seen.
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