Twitterbot generates North Korean patriotic slogans with Markov chains

Cory Doctorow 8:01 am Tue Feb 17, 2015

The 300 weird patriotic slogans that North Korea released last week had the stilted feel of machine-generated text.

Now comes a limited Turing test for the ages: can Shardcore's @NK_Markov bot generate better patriotic slogans using Markov chains than Pyonyang's own propagandists?

Let us live the areas adjacent to start with disabilities a revolutionary ideology and prosperous country!

Speed up a sports mass-based movements and people!

Establish the Workers' Party within the whole Party of the threat of socialist public health system\!

Hold fast to the Workers' Party work to the titles of construction

Carry out a thoroughgoing way the country's law

Paektu and the important national liberation by enforcing law

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