Re: [microsound] OT: those programs spammers use to generate random text?

[Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some years ago, soon after 9-11 happened, my girlfriend got a new Dell 
PC laptop computer. One time after getting this new computer she was 
typing something  in the MS Word program and as she typed words started 
appearing that she herself was not entering.  The phrases were 
goobledy-gook for the most part interspersed with brief word strings of 
intelligible text. The intelligible text word strings had to do with 
hijackers, terrorist stuff, and various hot and threatening types of 
news.  The computer seemed to be picking up some sort of secret 
terrorist communications almost as if it was jihadist automatic writing! 
It was unnerving to say the least in the paranoid mood after 9-11.  We 
investigated this by calling Dell tech service and they told us that the 
computer probably shipped with the voice/text recognition feature 
switched on.  We then discovered that the laptop was picking up 
television broadcast news snippets from the tv that was on in the corner 
of the room and entering some of the newscaster's spoken words as 
written text. 

You might try duplicating this with a voice to text program.....in a 
glitched kind of way.

TA



Graham Miller wrote:
> like everyone, i'm guessing, i get a couple spam e-mails a day for 
> stocks, get rich quick schemes, overseas pharmacies, whatever...  at 
> the bottom of these spam e-mails are usually a couple paragraphs of 
> sentences, which make sense a little, but seem like they are generated 
> by some sort of algorithm, in order to bypass spam filters...  i 
> really like the nonsensical stuff at the bottom of these junk e-mails, 
> believe it or not, and i'm wondering if there is some kind of online 
> application used for generating these kinds of passages? it really 
> reminds me a bit of david byrne lyrics circa remain in light!  
> generative poetry or lyrics... i love it! does anyone know how these 
> bits of text are generated and where i might find a similar app to do 
> such a thing? i promise i won't use it for evil - only for art... 
> well... okay. maybe for evil art. but that's it, i swear.
>
> g.
>
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