Is artificial intelligence trying to take over even poetry? Or is playing with a computerized song generator program a hi-tech version of Mad Libs? Whatever. I enjoy Mad Libs so I had some laughs at friends' "songs" and generated a few of my own.
There's actually a short story I wrote, years ago, into which these things fit...
The story was in a batch of stories about the paper dolls the sisters and I had collected over the years. Most of them came with commercial stories (were sold as tie-ins to three-dimensional dolls like Barbie, or to TV shows like Jem & the Holograms) already published. That was their background; in this collection they had moved to a paper doll town known as Pine City (as in pine wood, processed into paper) and my stories were about their adventures there. They were not fan-fiction as the phrase is used today, at all.
Actually, because I was so young and the sisters were children when I was writing these stories, most of them were really childish cautionary tales about how a paper doll learned that fire can cause pain, yelling can cause unpopularity, borrowing your sister's things without permission can really ruin your life, and similar things all younger sisters should know. Only rarely did a paper doll inspire a story that would have interested an adult considering the possibility of having to read a story aloud as many times as children want it read aloud. (They are trying to learn to read, but as normal children can't see the printed letters clearly, only a few children learn to read by making an adult read a story aloud five hundred times. I was one of the few.)
Two sets of paper dolls came with science-fiction technological accessories. A character called the Star Princess, whose story was never available to me, travelled (presumably in space) with a slightly girly-shaped robot called Pluta. The Jem & the Holograms paper dolls' story was about their computer, which they called Synergy, which projected hologram images of them on stage while the girls could be out having adventures. Synergy was drawn in some of the coloring books that went with this series as just a big boxy-looking machine the girls lugged around in their truck, but it was activated by voice commands and addressed as if another female. In one of my stories Synergy, having absorbed so much input from teenaged girls, had developed a crush on a farecard machine in the D.C. Metrorail system while the group were performing in Washington. Since "she" "thought" "she" was a girl, "she" "thought" "she" had to have a crush on a boy. According to Synergy the farecard machine's name was Fred and, though they didn't touch as living creatures do, they enjoyed whirring, humming, beeping, and processing data together.
(Synergy called her farecard machine Fred after having "worked as a bookmark" in Joan Aiken's story collection, Not What You Expected, in which a computer called Fred solves the problems of all the humans in the story.)
On discovering this Mad-Libs-type song generator page, I generated some inane songs with random nouns and verbs, and then remembered Synergy's doomed romance with Fred.
Yes, these are the kind of songs Synergy might have presented for the Holograms to sing, as well as trying to route them back to Washington at every chance.
I'll spare you the song "in the style of Beyonce" with the verse:
Most incredibly updated.
Oh! So updated. Oh! So updated.
Yes! So updated right now.
That verse does seem to describe the feelings of a computer experiencing bliss, but the rest of the song was less excellent.
Feel free to share your own silly computer-generated songs in the comments section...
Oh wow, what AI can do!
ReplyDeleteWent over to the site and generate a song of my own. Still makes some sense, the lyrics.
I once used a generator to create a poem, it came out a bit gibberish, but i cleaned it up and it looked like a decent one. I even published it in my blog. Your song reads like a sci fi story. :)
I think this generator is not as scary as those that create fake faces or colorise old, blurry photos.
No, this one's just for fun. The fake faces do look horrible, because the pieces taken from different pictures never seem to fit together into anything that looks like a living creature. Ghoulish for Halloween, though! Thank you for visiting, dsnake1.
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