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Rest of World / Andrew Deck / Sep 21
“​​If you can properly generate tabloid headlines in French, that’s one thing. But if [a product] can replicate [Victor] Hugo’s style or somebody famous, that gets a different kind of credibility,” Dan Brown, a professor at the University of Waterloo who researches computational creativity, told Rest of World. “Replicating classical language forms is a way of looking prestigious.”
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