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Re:PHP code generated by GPT-2 by bitexploder on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:06AM (#19253907)
It’s a text generation algorithm. It’s not meant to be real code, just look like it. This is the infamous “too dangerous to release” GPT-2 making this code.
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Re:PHP code generated by GPT-2 by userbinator on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:11AM (#19253944)
Reminds me somewhat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning

...and now I hope that searching for code in the future won't become polluted by such spam.

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Re:PHP code generated by GPT-2 by bitexploder on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:43AM (#19254188)
I think everyone has written a Markov Chain generator and fed it The Bible plus a random flavor text. Right?
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Re:PHP code generated by GPT-2 by corobo on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:08AM (#19254367)
The flavour text was always jerkcity.txt in every markov bot I've ever come across
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