N grams
I was reading AI-slop , GrantaGate and Bad
Writing
and the linked n
grams. I was
wondering how common it is for random phrases to appear on the internet. I tried
generating random n grams from /usr/share/dict/words, filtering by eye to those that “look like English”
and then checking them in infini-gram. Turns out that
no, random phrases do not appear on the internet.