MIT researchers have applied the electrodes and brought to life a new fiction-writing bot they call Shelley -after “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley. They made their creation read 140,000 stories published by amateur writers on a popular online forum. Now Shelly is generating its own stories. Of course the stories are a bit strange and the wording doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it’s writing stories. Watch out, Stephen King, Shelley is after you.



Shelley’s sentences are inspired by the hive mind it’s learned from: a crew of horror hobbyists who participate in Reddit’s “r/nosleep” forum . Machine-learning algorithms are fueled by big troves of data, and these amateur writers have produced about 700 megabytes of home-grown horror over the past decade.

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