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Text reproduction with machine learning
Name	Text reproduction with machine learning
Location	De Bonte Zwaan
Date	2018/07/31
Time	10:00-17:00
PeopleOrganisations	Moritz Ebeling
Type	HDSA2018
Web	Yes
Print	No

In the era of data, intelligence and computing, the authenticity of any digital content is not longer guaranteed. With machine learning technology, a human voice can be imitated, a moving image can be manipulated in real time, texts can be phrased by using raw data. All to make up something „real“. To get a glimpse of what’s going on, we built our own deep learning network! In this workshop, we trained a given neural network on original text to reproduce it, remixed it, produced more of it. Sometimes the output was complete rubbish, sometimes the algorithm repeated passgages from the original. But certainly it invented or rehashed content based on the given input, so who is faking whom?

This workshop was fun for beginners and pros!

For this workshop we needed:

A computer + power plug
To know where to find your computer’s Terminal or Console
To have Python 3.6 installed (1)
We used Tensorflow, so if you’re cool with Python, you could install it on forehand, otherwise we did it during the workshop or in advance.
Text material that you wanted to feed the machine with. This could be text that you had written yourself or found somewhere. Short text passages were internalized by the machine very quickly. Some brought excerpts, a few pages or a book. The texts were remix, reproduce and produce more of. Some texts that were used: The Communist Mannifesto by Karl Marx, the scripts from all Harry Potter movies, The Cyborg Manifesto from Donna Haraway, some newspapers headlines. We needed the text in .txt files, but you can use formats like Markdown or XML like syntax to define headlines, paragraphs, bullet points, quotes. You can format the text however you like, as long as it's in one or many .txt files.

(1) For beginners, this is a quite heavy task to either find out which version you have installed or to update to version 3.

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-In the era of data, intelligence and computing, the authenticity of any digital content is not longer guaranteed. With machine learning technology, a human voice can be imitated, an moving image can be manipulated in real time, texts can be phrased by using raw data. All to make up something „real“. To get a glimpse of what’s going on, let’s build our own deep learning network!
+In the era of data, intelligence and computing, the authenticity of any digital content is not longer guaranteed. With machine learning technology, a human voice can be imitated, a moving image can be manipulated in real time, texts can be phrased by using raw data. All to make up something „real“. To get a glimpse of what’s going on, we built our own deep learning network!
-In this workshop, we will train a given neural network on original text to reproduce it, remix it, produce more of it. Sometimes the output will be complete rubbish, sometimes the algorithm will repeat passgages from the original. But certainly it will invent or rehash content based on the given input, so who is faking whom? This workshop can be fun for beginners and pros.
+In this workshop, we trained a given neural network on original text to reproduce it, remixed it, produced more of it. Sometimes the output was complete rubbish, sometimes the algorithm repeated passgages from the original. But certainly it invented or rehashed content based on the given input, so who is faking whom?
-'''Please bring'''
+This workshop was fun for beginners and pros!
+'''For this workshop we needed:'''
 * A computer + power plug
-* Know where to find your computer’s Terminal or Console
+* To know where to find your computer’s Terminal or Console
-* Have Python 3 installed (1)
+* To have Python 3.6 installed (1)
-* We will use Tensorflow, so if you’re cool with Python, you can install it already, otherwise we do it during the workshop or in advance.
+* We used Tensorflow, so if you’re cool with Python, you could install it on forehand, otherwise we did it during the workshop or in advance.
-* Text material that you want to feed the machine with. This can be text that you wrote yourself or found somewhere. Short text passages will be internalized by the machine very quickly, so this can be a good experiment but might not be that interesting to fill a whole day. So bring more text, a few pages or a book, or even more. Think of text that you want to remix, reproduce and produce more of. E.g. all surrealist poems from Pablo Neruda, The Communist Mannifesto by Karl Marx, the scripts from all Harry Potter movies, Newspaper headlines from the last year, whatever. We will need the text in .txt files, but you can use formats like Markdown or XML like syntax to define headlines, paragraphs, bullet points, quotes. You can format the text whatever you like, as long as its in one or many .txt files.
+* Text material that you wanted to feed the machine with. This could be text that you had written yourself or found somewhere. Short text passages were internalized by the machine very quickly. Some brought excerpts, a few pages or a book. The texts were remix, reproduce and produce more of. Some texts that were used: The Communist Mannifesto by Karl Marx, the scripts from all Harry Potter movies, The Cyborg Manifesto from Donna Haraway, some newspapers headlines. We needed the text in .txt files, but you can use formats like Markdown or XML like syntax to define headlines, paragraphs, bullet points, quotes. You can format the text however you like, as long as it's in one or many .txt files.
+(1) For beginners, this is a quite heavy task to either find out which version you have installed or to update to version 3.
-(1) For beginners, this is a quite heavy task to either find out which version you have installed or to update to version 3. If you don’t know what that means, ask me or others in the days prior to the workshop.
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