[HN Gopher] A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney...
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A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
Author : rvieira
Score : 220 points
Date : 2021-01-18 13:42 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| Borlands wrote:
| This looks great! Lacks instructions on how to use it in the
| readme, and I wonder could it be adapted for other cartoon
| animations?
|
| A blog post on how it was built would be a great follow-up!
|
| Kudos to you, sir
| godot wrote:
| The readme doesn't mention it, but I like that it seems that
| anim.py is pretty standalone so you could potentially use it not
| just for Reddit comment threads, but pretty much any conversation
| at all.
|
| Also like that it seems fairly easy to modify to use another
| prosecutor as the second main character. I know who I'd use!
| degurechaff wrote:
| I want a danganronpa version too.
| yowlingcat wrote:
| My sides are splitting. This is the lighthearted use of
| technology that I live for. Thanks for making my weekend, OP! And
| now to find good subreddits to target...
| reilly3000 wrote:
| You're all right big guy!
| quenix wrote:
| That is amazing.
| vyrotek wrote:
| Fun. Reminds me of Comic Chat.
|
| Maybe we need a Slack app to make these images for each message?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
| jcfields wrote:
| I forgot all about Comic Chat. It was fun (and also the most
| appropriate use of Comic Sans MS ever).
| furyofantares wrote:
| I believe it's the origin of Comic Sans
| tomatotomato37 wrote:
| There's this thing which is kinda like that
|
| https://aceattorneyonline.com/#
| namanaggarwal wrote:
| I used to get kicked out everytime I converted a group to comic
| chat. Those were the days :)
| RyJones wrote:
| The OG Comic Chat client is available[0]; too bad Slack killed
| the irc gateway.
|
| [0]: http://www.mermeliz.com/cchat.htm
| nuodag wrote:
| https://www.reddit.com/user/objection-bot
| nkg wrote:
| I love it
| grenoire wrote:
| The demo video notes that it uses Phoenix as the most-commenting,
| and Edgeworth as the second (and the rest of the cast following
| that); in addition, it uses a NLP to determine the tone of the
| voice, and mark an _Objection!_ if it 's negative.
|
| Absolutely genius.
| pi-victor wrote:
| hilarious af. noice!
| pfdietz wrote:
| AA illustration of why gcc is so slow.
|
| https://twitter.com/i/status/1285217798642454531
| pimlottc wrote:
| Note that this was created manually, it's not an example of the
| bot's output. I was really impressed before I realized that :P
| xwdv wrote:
| Wow this is a brilliant way to mass produce tons of unique
| YouTube videos and get lots of views. I wonder what the ad
| revenue is like.
| dukeofdoom wrote:
| Actually, if there was something that turned a thread into
| speech, that I could listen to while doing work around the house,
| might be useful.
| rebuilder wrote:
| Pocket does Text to Speech, IIRC. I think I tried it on reddit
| at some point. It turns out the ability to just skip comments
| and not read through all the threads in their entirety is
| pretty important.
| Lorin wrote:
| This could be done in browser via native speechSynthesis API.
| Maybe there's already an extension out there.
| davidscolgan wrote:
| I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching
| out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and
| encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from
| Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me.
| Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything
| "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do,
| and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that could be
| indistinguishable from a person making silly videos.
|
| What percentage of Reddit comments are bots? I'd be curious to
| know. SaaS and Lambda functions and and APIs are all like very
| complicated neurons that link together to form this world wide
| web of interactions.
|
| I've wondered if an approach to the AI alignment problem is
| really to see that the entirety of all the computers in the world
| are a giant brain that is continually self-improving. Phoenix
| Wright bot is one neuron, like any other. And so to align the
| world AI, you have to align the culture that makes the AI. And
| so, basically, anything that one does to improve the culture in a
| sense improves AI.
| kubanczyk wrote:
| > a giant brain that is continually self-improving
|
| ...nope, does not qualify. If it cannot manage to replicate
| itself completely (as in: create another separate 'internet'
| capable of further replication) it is as good as a single human
| living on Mars. It's a short ride, one small mistake and
| goodbye Mr. Superintelligence. (I'm not claiming humans will be
| able to survive that though.)
| leetcrew wrote:
| maybe so, but I don't think this particular program does
| anything like AI. glancing at the code, it looks like it just
| pastes the full text of a reddit comment into a video template,
| using a different template for each unique commenter in the
| thread. it no more "does what a human might otherwise do" than
| how a sorting algorithm might emulate how I sort my socks.
| haolez wrote:
| It uses a neural network for sentiment analysis, so it can be
| classified as "using AI".
| ta1234567890 wrote:
| You are spot on. We are so self-centered that we think an AI
| superintelligence will be something like superintelligent-
| human-mind, when most likely, it will be nothing like a human
| and probably completely unrecognizable to us.
|
| In fact, I'd argue it's already here and already taken over.
|
| Most of us are now enslaved by screens and the Internet, we are
| addicted to them, even if we don't want to admit it. Some might
| say these things are run by humans, but are humans really in
| charge? Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent
| everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every
| day? Is even a group of people capable of doing it? And even if
| they could, would they?
|
| Maybe if humans went extinct, the Internet and screens would
| disappear, but that just means there's a symbiotic
| relationship, not that we are by any means in control.
| fao_ wrote:
| > Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent
| everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every
| day?
|
| Google "ICANN"
|
| https://deadline.com/2020/07/internet-down-outage-
| cloudflare...
|
| https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-
| serv...
| jwally wrote:
| Google: "I CAN"
| yissp wrote:
| Apparently it's not running anymore, but
| https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/ is sort of
| apropos. It's an entirely bot-generated subreddit. You can
| still read through the old posts.
| danbolt wrote:
| The first Ace Attorney game must have been incredible value for
| Capcom's investment. The spartan, comic-like sprites and
| straightforward visual novel gameplay likely fit into a smaller
| ROM size. Given the charming narrative, I bet they made their ROI
| pretty quickly in the first print run.
| csilverman wrote:
| Oh my god, this is funny.
|
| I'd never even heard of the game before this, but the
| animation/music is hilarious just on its own.
| shmerl wrote:
| Check this out:
| http://aaonline.fr/search.php?search&criteria[sequenceId-is]...
| bombcar wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvFk8hapDZY is the link to the
| demo (missed it the first time reading the github).
| dwighttk wrote:
| Too bad it isn't Reddit, I'd love to see the weightlifters
| arguing over how many days are in a week.
| 3gg wrote:
| A true cornerstone in the development of Web 3.0.
| slavik81 wrote:
| People also do this manually via objection.lol. One of my
| favourites is "All odd numbers have an E in them" [1].
|
| [1]: https://youtu.be/IFcyYnUHVBA
| dharmab wrote:
| "Is Lava Wet" is art.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWF_8dw0zdQ
| bentcorner wrote:
| Also notable: "Is soup a drink?"
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDNuz_VFJtU
| ArcMex wrote:
| You can tell a Lotta Hart went into this.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| This will be even more amazing when AI animation and vocals are
| auto generated.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| Apparently Ace Attorney is a computer game:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Attorney?wprov=sfla1
| Jommi wrote:
| Its a Nintendo DS Game that has grown a cult following ever
| since the first game was released. A visual novel style game.
| m45t3r wrote:
| Actually the original series is from Game Boy Advance, but
| the GBA games were never released outside of Japan.
|
| Nintendo DS ports were the first one releases in the rest of
| the world.
|
| BTW, I am a great fan of the series, really recommend it.
| JohnBooty wrote:
| Did you know that it's actually a rather pointed
| parody/criticism of the Japanese justice system? I had no
| idea myself! Perhaps I was the only one who didn't know.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Ja
| p...
|
| The conviction rate in Japan is over _99%_ -- going to
| "trial" is essentially the same as being found guilty.
|
| The prosecuting attorneys have a lot of discretion over
| what is prosecuted, and are effectively de facto judges.
| They may decide to simply not prosecute a case if they feel
| "character, age, environment, gravity of the offense,
| circumstances or situation after the offense" makes it
| unnecessary.
|
| So it's easy to imagine there might be some with quite an
| ego like Edgeworth or Von Karma -- and a protagonist like
| our heroic defense attorney would be quite the unusual
| attorney, indeed! I loved the games even without knowing
| any of that, but that really makes them all the more
| poignant and funny for me.
| patwolf wrote:
| I recently started playing it on the Switch, and my first
| thought was that I hope the Japanese court system isn't
| really like this. It makes me appreciate the idea of
| "innocent until proven guilty" in the US. Ace Attorney
| feels much more "I don't like you, so I'm going to assume
| you're guilty unless you have absolute proof that you're
| not".
| TheDong wrote:
| Justice systems are complicated. From what I've read,
| it's true that the japanese court system indeed gives
| prosecutors more leeway and the trial is more of a
| formality. The conviction rate of 99% (vs 70-95% in the
| us, depending how you count) speaks to this.
|
| However, that's not all there is to it. You're still
| innocent until proven guilty in Japan.
|
| There's also probably more in common with the japanese
| justice system and the US system than different. In
| practice, the majority of cases in both don't go to
| trial. In japan, the prosecution will just not prosecute
| any case they don't think they'll win (and have broad
| leeway to do so). This results in a 99% conviction rate
| because, well, there's no reason they can't just drop any
| case without rock solid evidence. Even in cases where
| they're confident the suspect is guilty, but they don't
| think they have enough evidence, they may opt to just
| drop the case.
|
| In the US, similarly, most cases don't go to trial. The
| vast majority are also ended under prosecute discretion,
| via plea bargains. Both in the US and Japan, most cases
| skip the proper court system due to the prosecution
| having power to do so. It's just in Japan, the
| prosecution also has power to drop the case, while in the
| US the prosecution can only skip the courts if they get a
| plea deal, but not if the suspect keeps pleading not-
| guilty.
|
| Japan has laws requiring evidence in addition to a
| confession due to understanding that police sometimes
| force confessions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal
| _justice_system_of_Jap...)
|
| In america it's routine for people to be convicted on
| nothing other than a suspect agreeing to a plea deal even
| though they didn't do it. "You can get 1 year in jail and
| get back to your family if you take the plea, or you can
| risk 30 years in jail if you keep saying not-guilty"
| isn't at all unusual in the US system, especially since a
| cop's word is often enough for a guilty sentence.
|
| I'd be happy to be wrong on any of he above details if
| anyone has separate experience, understanding, or
| sources.
|
| All that being said, I'd much much rather be arrested in
| Japan than in the US.
| marzell wrote:
| I wonder if this is partly an extension of what you might
| call "confirmation culture", which could be described as
| a way of avoiding disgrace/humiliation.
|
| For instance, when applying for a promotion, I've heard
| that in Japanese culture it is common to get pre-approval
| from various parties beforehand so that it is ensured
| before a formal/public application is made; this way,
| nobody is disgraced by being turned down. Not sure how
| true that is. But it could apply to the justice system in
| a similar way; having a high conviction rate means the
| justice system is effective, whereas trying someone and
| not convicting them might make the justice system look
| bad.
| pacificat0r wrote:
| We need that but foe hn comments
| whymauri wrote:
| This bot is a lot of fun! Maybe we need an HN clone? :P
| meibo wrote:
| That wouldn't work, the characters in ace attorney aren't that
| passive aggressive ;)
| brink wrote:
| Well maybe some of us need to fix our attitudes a little
| more.
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| xwdv wrote:
| It will work better if you use downvoted comment threads.
| [deleted]
| Impossible wrote:
| You do often win the game by being pedantic and pointing out
| small issues that didn't have anything to do with the
| original main testimony, so maybe parent is on to something
| after all :)
| sitkack wrote:
| Objection! Don't do that here.
| swayvil wrote:
| Watched the demo. Impressive.
|
| It grinds that (all too common) petty drama into sausage.
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