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by 3pt14159 2489 days ago
For the lazy:

<human>The bridge wasn't quite right. There were small sparks coming off the incomplete sections of material hanging just to the right of the traffic lights. Gary wasn't worried, however. He walked up carefully.</human><computer> "This is it, guys!"

A huge explosion rocked the bridge, and a fireball engulfed the entire bridge. "Shit! Shit!"

It seemed as though the fire was just blowing out, and the bridges were back in place. Gary was a little concerned, but it wasn't a problem at the time. At least it was under control.

He walked forward, peering over the top. "This is terrible. I'm not leaving the village tonight! How about a break for some water and a drink?"

When he looked down, the large chunk he had just taken off of the bridge was gone. As soon as he realized it was gone, he turned back to the village to check to see what had happened. Not sure what to do, he continued down the hill, heading toward the village at all times. The entire town was completely surrounded, and everyone was either inside or had</computer>

Not bad, but it's strange that it autogenerated text with multiple spaces at the end of sentences. Also, it is far more dramatic than I would have guessed.

1 comments

It's not just "not bad." It's scary. It makes enough coherent sense from sentence to sentence that I doubt my mom (missing a few marbles) would notice it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Combine this...some official looking logos and a request for money for a fine.

Determining an actual official government or other institutional request is going to get much harder.

I don't see the danger here though; how is this scarier than what a couple guys in Nigeria could concoct to fool your mom? Any English speaker can still put together a much more coherent an official sounding institutional request.