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by giosch 3159 days ago
I was expecting it to at least generate valid words, but that doesn't seem to be the case...
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Safari on latest MacOS gives me unintelligible words pretty often.

My input: "I went to the grocery store to pick up some milk for"

Output on wikipedia setting:

"I went to the grocery story to pick up some milk for ... proposes of such to take a amplifier and the exporteruation of the player of former"

None of the options seem to key off of the text of my sentence except for vaguely the last word (in my case a generic preposition). Am I doing it wrong?

Here's another example, with the ellipses where I pressed tab:

> As I walked along the forest trail, I came to a most amazing [...] the history of the town himself, the complete material was made to be a traditional

You're starting the text like a story (in the first person even!). Wikipedia articles aren't usually written like that, so the network is in unfamiliar territory. Its only option is to quickly revert back to something closer to the style of an informative article.
What is it generating for you? (and what OS/browser are you using?)