Oh my goodness!! This book is hilarious. I laughed until I cried at some of these scripts, ads and other things.

The only chapter I did not like was the Fable, it wasn't as funny as the rest of the book.

I'd read it over and over again because it made me laugh more than anything I've read... ever.

Thank you to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I first heard of Keaton Patti from a viral tweet of his Batman robot script. I laughed so hard for about twenty minutes straight! When I saw that he was going to publish a book of more 'forced robot' scripts, I knew I had to read them all. While some of the joke scripts were a miss, others really shined and left me in great, cackling spirits. Included in the book is also the great Batman script. If you're a fan of "What if AI wrote scripts?' or just getting into it, this book is great for you.

I Forced a Bot to Write this Book
by Keaton Patti

I wondered if the title was some type of joke, but it’s not—humorist Keaton Patti “forced a bot to input 1,000 hours of various forms of content and then asked it to create its own version of that content.” I confess—I was totally intrigued at the idea of finding out a bot’s fresh take on White House press briefings, Olive Garden commercials, knock-knock jokes, business Powerpoints, and episodes of The Office.

Want to see for yourself what a bot did with the details and tropes of our daily media lives? Here’s an excerpt from the bot’s killer new Game of Thrones episode.

DAENERYS
I have many long names so I deserve
to lead on the sharp sword chair.

TYRION LANNISTER
Sisters. How many do you have?

DENERYS
I possess zero. I obsess dragons.

TYRION LANNISTER
Jon. She is not like us. Kill her.

Most humor books like this are designed to be given as gifts with the real value being the laughs over the concept. This one, though, might get read, and more than a few of these entries are smile-inducing.

4 out of 5 coffee cups

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I have to be honest, this book was one of the dumbest things I've ever read. And that's exactly why I loved it. It was so funny and surprising, the things that were written. From tv scripts to fake resumes, life hacks, and everything in between, I know I'm going to be thinking about this book for a while. I'd love a copy just to have, just because it's so silly I want to show people, you know?

My favourite things in this book were the tv scripts, I think. There were a ton of tv shows done like Friends, Game of Thrones, Spongebob Squarepants, and just so many others. Though my copy of the arc didn't have any pictures, I just kind of skipped over those because I feel like I couldn't fully understand them. Usually that problem would have me just not reading the book entirely because it's not a complete copy, but that didn't stop me for this. I couldn't! It's too silly. I wanted to see what it was all about.

The only thing I would have changed is I honestly wish there were more tv scripts. Maybe some more cartoons would have been funny to read about, like The Simpsons, American Dad, and South Park. But honestly that's it. I loved the rest of it, and if you're looking for just something funny to read to break up your usual reading, this is the book for you.

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GUYS this cover was sooooo cool
I mean look at the title
I wanted to read this soooo much and bad
But I couldn't download it :"( ;-; T-T
I'm sure I would have loved this and laughed a lot
i probably would have laughed too much, to the point where I was crying
but I'm also sure I would have recommended this to all of my friends
Soooo, I'm going to rate this five out of five stars.
Someone needs to tell me how this was. And retell the whole book to me :") :D :P

This book was funny, although some parts were much funnier than others. It is written in independent short chapters, so if one section isn't tickling your funny bone, just flip to the next section. Could be good to read out loud, too.

This book literally made me out loud. I have always questioned whether it was actually the author writing the content of these books, but no. A human cannot make this stuff up. A++

I really thought this book would appeal to my sense of humour, but it just wasn't something I enjoyed. I guess other people might enjoy it more.

Comedian writing as if he were a bad AI text completion bot writing TV scripts, dating profiles, movie scripts, knock knock jokes, and other ridiculous premises,. I loved the ones that I read when they first came out online, but when I read them all together back to back to back the joke got old relatively quickly. The shining exception to this was the corporate power point deck which was a hilarious use of the form. In small bites, as a coffee table book, this will help get you through the bleak winter until the singularity comes and our AI overlords harvest our biomass for paperclips.

This was a very funny book, I got some strange looks for laughing while I was reading it. There were some things that fell flat but it was overall a good book.

Mad Libs meet 2020 in Keaton Patti's new book "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book."
Or, for you Millennial readers, RI meets BS, which translates to old readers like me as, RI meets Bullshit, I think.
This creative collection of 1,000 computer hours smashed in between two covers is strange, to say the least. Patti was brilliant just conceiving and developing this idea, and genius in executing this title.
I Forced a Bot to Write This Book is very … Millennial, I think. Or is it Gen Z?
I'm on the cusp of the Baby Boomer and Clueless Generation, which, in this case makes sense.
Coming from a 56 year-old befuddled person, the best way to describe I Forced a Bot to Write This Book is that this title is computer science meets pop culture, meets every Starbucks drinker on the globe, I think.
It is an assortment of computer-generated conversations that address popular common cultural norms, like dating profiles and TV scripts for The Office, Family Guy and Mr. Rogers from the viewpoint of a computer.
The reader, in this case … me, gets a front-row view of what television, computer interaction and knock knock jokes are like from the point of a bunch of zeros and ones. (Which is the atom of computer science for all of you who think I lost my mind, I think.)
Patti includes computer generated country song lyrics, romance novels, mommy blogs, poetry … pretty much everything "Millennial."
Years ago, when I thought things were funny I went to a book signing by a former LA Times writer who penned a collection of letters in which the author, who acted as any anonymous American consumer, asked high-power mainstream corporations like Coca-Cola outrageously ridiculous questions and making equally obviously absurd requests. The letters he wrote were poking fun at forced political correct tactics company CEOs subscribed to when dealing with a nutcase … and the general public.
The Fortune-500-company replies and concessions were drop dead hilarious.
Now that I think of it, that book could have been called a knock-off of Candid Camera. But that reference really ages me, and Allen Funk isn't here to defend himself. Besides, the Punk'd television series was the most immediate knock off of that show.
Aannyy who … as Steve Erkle would say … (It's another old reference for you Millennials out there.) I Forced a Bot to Write This Book is today's version of those timeless classics that spoof the current world and capture the hearts of their generations.
So lap it up Millennials. This is your youth, your world. But watch out you caffeinated hipsters, the Gen Z'ers are right behind you, and by the time you are my age, there is a very high likelihood that everything you attempt to review is going to cause absolute confusion.
That, dear reader, I am sure about. Now I need to figure out what RI means.

Absolutely hysterical! I’m always so curious how AI would translate much of our pop culture. This did not disappoint! Out November 17, 2020, I FORCED A BOT TO WRITR THIS BOOK is a great holiday add-on and an entertaining distraction to the horror show 2020 has been.

I was so very intrigued with the concept of this book, but when I knew that the author didn't actually "force a bot to write it", I was very disappointed. I mean, it was apparent that some things were written so bizarrely but I wanted so bad for that concept to be real!

The whole idea is this is supposedly a collection of writing, mostly screenplays for scenes, ads, and other humorous stuff like a fictional CV written by a bot. and it's so very bizarre, and sometimes it did really capture the essence of the shows/films/ideas they talked about. There's all the popular shows and films like Seinfeld, Frasier, Friends, Star Trek and others. It was really funny at times and so incoherent at other times.

I thank Netgalley for the digital ARC.

The scary thing about this book is that some things actually made perfect sense. The Game of Thrones episode, the Trump speech and the fable are my most favourite parts, mostly because they made almost perfect sense and fit the content exactly like it's supposed to be.
I can only reccomed it. It's a little spot of light (at least for me) in a very uncertain and dark time and this book made me smile.
(Come to think of what I am writing it might seem like I had a robot hired to write this review. But I'd never do that...)
No, seriously - I do hope there'll be more stuff like that written by the author. I am going to keep my eyes open, because that book was simply hilarious and a very enjoyable and easy read. Now I slightly scared of technology, to be honest...

I received a free copy by Netgalley and I am extremely grateful to the author for providing me with a good laugh today. It's just what I needed.

I didn't find this book funny, and I'm not entirely sure why.

The humor seems to be relatively up my lane, but this was really boring and almost difficult to get through. It was absolutely obvious from the very beginning that it was a comedian trying to write as a 'bot', but even that didn't appeal to me.

I don't know, this book just didn't work for me.

Thanks to the publishers for sharing this one. I didn't find all of it funny, but parts of it were hilarious. My full review appears on Weekend Notes.

Funny. I do not usually like this genre, but it was so hilarious most will enjoy.

Thank you NetGalley for giving me an advance copy. Much appreciated.

I know others who would find this hilarious. Me, while I could see the humor in parts, mostly was just too ridiculous and random for me to really laugh much. Eventually, I just started paging through and skimming bits and never really found any that were laugh out loud for me. I found irony in some selections, but then it would toss in an entirely almost seemingly unrelated topic in that made me lose interest.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy to read and review.

Okay so this book is hilarious! It makes no sense yet at the same time is so perfectly representative of the content. I especially loved the script for the Trump rally and the Soap Opera. While I wouldn't recommend reading it all in one sitting as your brain will surely melt from the stupidity of the content (in a good way), I do recommend reading it!

Because I love the strange mix of logic and complete nonsense that results when bots try to imitate artifacts of human culture, I thought that this NetGalley advance read would be a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I did not like it at all. After the first several pages, it became clear that these silly submissions were written by a human comedy writer imitating a bot, and because the charm, hilarity, and surprise of this style of writing comes from its actual AI provenance, knowing that a person wrote this took all of the joy out of it.

I gave up on this book for about a week, but then I went back and skimmed the rest of it. Some of the jokes made me smile, but overall, I did not find this funny. It is random and nonsensical, and because the writing includes lots of off-the-wall elements based on human cultural associations and imaginative connections, it doesn't have the tone or texture of bot-created misunderstandings. This didn't work for me as AI humor or human comedy, and was just a strange mixture between the distinct styles.

It's clear from other reviews that there is an audience for this type of book, and I am sure that other people will enjoy it, but the humor was too random and often distasteful for my preferences, and because I went into the book with a false expectation, I found it very disappointing. Many of the segments are so incoherent that I couldn't even get through them, and I would not have finished this book if I had not felt an obligation to review it. I would only recommend this to people who accurately understand what the book has to offer, and are personally interested in seeing how a human writer would imitate AI.