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by css 2269 days ago
Hug of death? All I get is:

> Oops... there was an error generating text

> The server encountered an error and could not complete the request. Please try again after some time.

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Apologies for that.

Fixed it by adding more servers. Thanks for taking a look.

Almost every request looks like it has been improperly scraped from Reddit. A ton of queries I made have responses that look exactly like this:

> [Word for word what I typed in the prompt]

> Flair: Other

> Title: My friend is a girl

> Flair: Discussion

> Title: What are your favorite things about being in high school?

> Flair: Other

> Title: My friend is a girl and she likes me too

> Text: She told her friends about it

I cannot think of a context where including Reddit meta tags makes sense.

Reddit is a source for the corpus, so it is likely that the style matches it. More likely for some topics/styles than others.

Do you feel it somehow affects the quality of generations?

Thanks for the feedback. It'd be great if you can sign up and try it further and help improve the application.

I don't know why I would want to generate a line like "Flair: other" in a blog post. Why would the flair for a Reddit post even be in the corpus? Your app is billed as a writing tool, but this seems like a Reddit title and flair generator.
At this time, the engine has no knowledge about your context (blogging etc.). It picks up completions matching the topic and style.

I understand that you find this odd since you are not composing a Reddit post.

Again, very useful feedback; keeps us busy.

Thanks!