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by aesthetics1 2566 days ago
This seems to generate mostly word salad. I haven't been able to find an artist (even one of the recommended artists like Drake) that it generates intelligible lyrics for. It seems to grab existing lyrics from other songs and mash them together, but it's not doing a great job of it.
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The only reason this is on HN is because a teenager made it
and so that HN'ers could heap scorn upon it while claiming that they could bang something out like this in a weekend.

In this case though, I'd believe them.

Markov chains alone aren’t really the best solution for this, but you can find a few interesting snippets here and there in the output
Yeah, it just strings words together as far as I can tell.
He says he used Markov Chains - which is just stringing words together based upon probability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain