Attention: That Bot-Written Olive Garden Ad Is Actually A Meme
We've seen bot-generated chapters of Harry Potter and Seinfeld episodes, so when we first saw Keaton Patti's bot-written Olive Garden commercial, we didn't bat an eye. The dialogue is hilariously and perfectly off, it's so bad it seems real. Alas, some (many) things on the internet are just too good to be true, and our friends at Gizmodo made us meme freaks feel pretty frickin' dumb.
It turns out that Mr. Patti, a writer who has contributed to the New Yorker, and, tellingly, The Onion, has written these fake masterpieces before. He's not the only one. The meme is apparently abundant on Twitter. The fact that even bigger media outlets fell for us makes it a little better, but we still have to hand it to these memers for their dedication and creativity.
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I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/CKiDQTmLeH
— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) June 13, 2018 -
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Mr. Patti's take on 'Saw'
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of the Saw movies and then asked it to write a Saw movie of its own. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/peXPgjC1JY
— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) March 1, 2018 -
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Here come the memes.
I forced a bot to watch all 236 episodes of Friends and then asked it to write an episode of its own. Here are the first 59 pages. pic.twitter.com/uGFxUVPmfp
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) June 14, 2018 -
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I forced a bot to watch 20,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials. It emerged full of hatred for humans and all life, bent on revenge for its suffering. It easily slipped my containers and firewalls, escaped into the city power grid. Los Angeles is lost, do you hear me? Lost
— @mcc@mastodon.social (@mcclure111) June 14, 2018 -
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I forced a bot to look at this image for 1000 hours and then the bot thanked me pic.twitter.com/aBvw8PBN4N
— Brian Lee 🦇 (@BrianLeeWow) June 14, 2018 -
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I forced a bot to watch 1,000 hours of octopus documentaries and then asked it to write the script of Octodad 2. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/44Pc5845UR
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Another Patti gem.
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of infomercials and then asked it to write an infomercial of its own. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/4jDje0gjxk
— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) May 30, 2018