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by sidewndr46 883 days ago
if other AI trains on the "news" this generates won't it converge on articles that are nothing but "buffalo buffalo" for millions of pages?
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I'm not sure why training on a diverse set of words would lead to converging on one word (but maybe there's a joke going over my head :P)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Is the longest grammatically correct sentence in English.

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

That sentence isn't the longest valid English sentence, for example, this sentence is longer. In fact, as that Wikipedia article says, you can extend that sentence as well:

> Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos"; any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct.

Anyone who wants to go down that rabbit hole, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...

I never herd that before, thanks.
Not everyone is made for herding buffalo.
It's the longest grammatically correct sentence composed entirely of one repeating word.
I love that the article has a diagram with Buffalo from Rochester, NY too LOL