Georg Brandes

The fake Brandes can be accessed here. The book is the result of a "recurrent neural network" (Wikipedia) trained on the six extant volumes of this work. This kind of artificial intelligence system makes a comprehensive series of observations about real texts and uses what it learns to predict hypothetical future works. Unlike earlier approaches of text generation such as markov chains (Wikipedia), this character-level RNN works on a letter-by-letter basis.

As such it may be interesting to observe the network has learned the capitalization rules of nouns in 19th century Danish, despite starting from a purely random state in which no letter is more or less likely to follow another.

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Software:

• textgenrnn by Mac Woolf: https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn/

Further reading:

• https://minimaxir.com/2018/05/text-neural-networks/
• https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn