Der Wahlkampf-Phrasendrescher
(Fun project)
From the fun section of the leading webzine about the
national 1998 elections. Germany's first digital
politician was able to write political speeches,
using the parties' original texts as input: the
results were complete nonsense, yet frightenly
realistic.
Considering that I wrote this script during a long afternoon,
it is amazing to see how much life of its own it then developed.
The idea of a computer program being able to serve as a
(surprisingly good) political ghostwriter must have
hit a nerve.
It received more press coverage than anything I
coded before, with reports in almost every major German
newspaper and magazine and even in Wired and
The Washington Post. Suddenly, I had to give
interviews to radio stations I never even knew they existed.
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