Parody generator
Parody generators are computer programs which generate text that is syntactically correct, but usually meaningless, often in the style of a technical paper or a particular writer. (Also travesty generators and random text generators.)
Their purpose is often satirical, intending to show that there is little difference between the generated text and real examples.[1]
Many work by using techniques such as Markov chains to reprocess real text examples; alternatively, they may be hand-coded, like Chomskybot. They are often hosted on websites. Generated texts can vary from essay length to paragraphs and tweets. (The term "quote generator" can also be used for software that randomly selects real quotations.)
Examples
- Subreddit Mashup, a subreddit name generator that implements Markov chains
- Dissociated press, an implementation of a Markov chaining algorithm
- Postmodernism Generator, generates essays in the style of post-structuralism
- SCIgen, generates nonsensical computer science research papers
- The Bonsai Story Tree Generator processor hosted on a website
- Chomskybot, generates paragraphs in the style of linguist Noam Chomsky
- Mark V Shaney, a pseudonym used to post generated text to usenet
- Let Kanye Finish, a Twitter bot that completes a sentence in the style of Kanye West