Rudolph the Ring-Bearer Flindeer

PROMPT: Santa and his elves were packing up the sleigh to take presents to little children all over the world, and the reindeer were excited.

“Come and play.”

“I’m sorry,” laughed the reindeer. “I’d rather play the flute.”

“Fine with my flute,” said the farmer.

“I don’t want to be a ring bearer, only a ring bearer,” said the flindeer.

I’ve always wanted to be a ring bearer.”

“And I,” said the snowman,

“I’ll be glad when I wake up! I’ll carry the coffin.”

“The coffin will be a marvelous present,” said the snowman.

The children cheered.

The father.

“Happy birthday, love,” said the snowman.

The children fainted.

The fireman shoveled a shovel.

He turned the hose on the fire.

The flames hissed and shrank.

It came out.

The snowman was coatking along the shore.

The hil was far off shore.

The traffic was clear.

He trudged along.

“Here’s a little package with something that belongs to you, Rudolph,” he said.

“What can I do for you?”

The little reindeer climbed up.

The four reindeer went down.

Rudolph jumped down into the water.

He splashed and scrubbed.

But he was too late.

The traffic swept away.

Rudolph was alone.

He almost slipped into the ocean.

“This is a terrible day for my life,” said the fire.

The fire rose into the sky.

The sea was cold and dark.

The fire spat.

I won’t go out now.

I was walking by the beach.

And I saw my friend,

The man with the big red sleigh,

I was just coming from the beach.

He said, “Come and see this little reindeer.

He is quite a little reindeer.”

“Oh, gee!” said the man.

“Rudolph is a happy little reindeer,” said the boy.

“I would love to see you ride a seesaw by yourself.

But I like to have a sail with me.”

So he began to build the boat,

And with all the family helping, it was finished in no time.

“Ho Ho Ho!,” said the man with the red sleigh.

[END TRANSMISSION]

Editor’s Notes

Written by AI. Used children’s picture book model I trained. The first generation of text was generated by gpt-2-simple, using a straightforward “give me lots of outputs” generator script, and generation 2 was made on my recursive script after feeding the prompt and gen1 in as a new prompt and asking for 500 words, 100 words at a time, using 80% of previous generation output as prefix.

Prompt

Prompt provided by Liz Anderson

Edits

Generation 2 starts after the line break. I changed two character names (1 to Rudolph, one to a depiction of Santa), changed one animal type to a reindeer, and changed one quote that seemed racially sensitive to “Ho Ho Ho!“.

GPT-2 Settings

# gen 1
{
  "run_name": "model-picturebooks-run1",
  "top_k": 80,
  "length": 40,
  "nsamples": 25,
  "prefix": "Santa and his elves were packing up the sleigh to take presents to little children all over the world, and the reindeer were excited.", "batch_size": 5, "top_p": 0.9,
  "truncate": "<|endoftext|>",
  "return_as_list": true,
  "temperature": 1.0
}

# gen 2
{
  "run_name": "model-picturebooks-run1",
  "return_as_list": true,
  "top_p": 0.9,
  "temperature": 1.0,
  "nsamples": 20,
  "truncate": "<|endoftext|>",
  "top_k": 40,
  "prefix": "\nSanta and his elves were packing up the sleigh to take presents to little children all over the world, and the reindeer were excited.\n\n\"Come and play.\"\n\n\"I'm sorry,\" laughed the reindeer. \"I'd rather play the flute.\"\n\n\"Fine with my flute,\" said the farmer.\n",
  "batch_size": 10,
  "length": 500
}