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by ljp_206 1515 days ago
I created a clunky discord bot that listens to everything my friends and I say on discord and uses that data in Markov chains to talk to us. The bot has various random chance parameters that allow it to chat with us, reply to us, send us memes (that it also generates via the imgflip api), choose random outcomes, and more. This bot has become quite the character and art project. He entertains, horrifies, and banters with us, mostly in terribly broken discordese that gives a laugh out of goofiness.

My brother also took a bit of time to hook him up to one of the GPTs, producing even more outlandish, essay-like responses.

I highly recommend coding toys like this for one's self and/or friends.

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I did something similar with a bot for my Minecraft server many years ago as a fun project, using markov chains as well (this was well before GPT). It certainly said some interesting things
Sounds like a gold mine for r/shitposting's automod responses.
Or a bot on /r/SubredditSimulator. Used to be one of my favorite subs, but it appears to be dead now.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/

Check out /r/subsimulatorgpt2.
This is great, thank you