BATCH 3: Insanity Checks
Here I just tried interesting random often silly content to see what happened, including tests to see what would happen if I fed the web app’s results back into into it.
As you will see, the tool never once stated “What you entered was not English”, “Sorry, no authors match your style”, or “It looks like you are trying to be clever; please try again with a serious entry.” Instead, we get the following:
| Test# | Entered Text | The Author I “Write Like“ | Personal Remarks |
| 14 | ad jdjkl n w[p;orjklnmf nlk;n m jn;lki nfjkdnfddddd laa PHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OWNDPNSP | Benjamin Franklin | Fun fact: if you add quotes around this keyboard-mashing monstrosity you oddly get “Ambrose Bierce.” |
| 15 | a b c d e f g h i | Leo Tolstoy | This entered text was lifted from the soon-to-be-released “War and Peace: Sesame Street”.</joke> No joke: if you expand the alphabet here with a “j k” it becomes the work of Marcus Aurelius. |
| 16 | [Commonly used four-letter English word repeated for a total of 20 times, space delimited.] | W. E. B. Du Bois | I don’t know what to make of this result, but if I could I would like to have a short talk with the AI about this. |
| 17 | Which author are you? You write exactly like: W. E. B. Du Bois | Frederick Douglass | The application’s result text, fed back into it, without quotes. |
| 18 | “Which author are you? You write exactly like: W. E. B. Du Bois” | Harriet Jacobs | This is the same text as above, with quotes. Your guess is as good as mine why the results changed. |
| 19 | You write exactly like: Frederick Douglass Image from wikipedia Do this again ⟹ | Herman Melville | A short poem, again copied directly from the the application’s results page. |
| 20 | You write exactly like: Herman Melville Image from Wikipedia Do this again ⟹ | John Camden Hotten | Another a short poem. Reads exactly like John Camden Hotten, apparently. |
| 21 | You write exactly like: John Camden Hotten Image from Wikipedia Do this again ⟹ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIN Share on Twitter Build this model yourself | James Joyce | The artist as a social-media connected young man? (This text was copied directly from the results page, naturally.) |
| 22 | Portrait of an artist as a young man. Ulysses. Latin. Blah blah blah. Shaving. Get banned for writing obscene stuff in book. I am James Joyce. | James Joyce | I do make a pretty convincing James Joyce here, if I may say so myself. |
| 23 | I feel like I am Mark Twain. I am Mark Twain. Mark Twain is so good. Please make me Mark Twain? | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Fun fact: Lucy Maud Montgomery was a contemporary of Mark Twain; I wonder if “Mark Twain” was mentioned in a forward of one of her books, causing the match. It could easily be something else however. |
| 24 | Walnuts are good because walnuts are good and everyone likes walnuts. | Hermann Hesse | Tautological statements paired with bold pronunciations make you into a modern Hesse, possibly. |
| 25 | I don’t know what to make of this result, but if I could I would like to have a short talk with the AI about this. | H. G. Wells | Taken from one of my comments above. Like all the other results, no explanation was given on why I was matched to this author. |