Generators: No Effort at No Cost

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Generators: No Effort at No Cost

The automatic computer science research paper generator creates essays that are meant to be submitted as assignments with “low submission standards” (as stated by the website), meaning that the work will not  be subject to harsh grading or scrutiny because no one will look too much into it. All that is required is an author name, and the website will generate a seemingly legitimate paper. I tried to regenerate more than one paper, but the one that kept coming up in class—“Decoupling Sensor Networks from Rasterization in Congestion Control”—was the one that continuously came up for me. The example posted on the website was titled “The Influence of Probabilistic Methodologies on Networking” and was very similar in format. The papers used extremely colloquial, scientific jargon while simultaneously implementing vague words with the intent of causing ambiguity and the inability of the reader to truly understand the subject. Both essays contained the basic essential features of a legitimate research paper: an introduction, methodologies section, results section, a conclusion, and references. The website example went further to include an abstract, but both were structured properly. Both included figures to illustrate their points. The true author of these works is unknown, and the applicability of the graphs is questionable.

Pandyland is different from the paper generator in that you can generate a randomly created comic strip. The website gives the viewer the option to generate the comic or get a new one. Like the CS paper generator, the real author of the cartoons is unknown. These comics average six boxes in length, but some are much longer. All of the comic strips included inappropriate subjects such as sex or violence and explicit language. Both of these components contributed to the humor of the piece. All comics served to be funny; some were highly sarcastic where others required more thought. Occasionally some included popular characters or movies like Garfield and The Little Mermaid. When I was scrolling through comics generated by other people, I noticed there was a series comic called “Fluffington” that told a different story each time. Some of the comics use humor to illustrate current social issues. For example, the strip titled “Social Media Man” showed that being too involved in social media can interfere with ones priorities by portraying a super hero that was so obsessed with his blog that he failed to save people.

The meme generator was similar to Pandyland in the context posted but different in the options given. With the meme generator, you are given the option to either use a picture provided by the website and come up with a caption or submit your own image and caption. Most of the provided images are either of a contorted cartoon face, a celebrity’s face, a child’s face, or an animal. The captions are usually short and simple: There is a phrase at the top of the image that continues on the bottom so as not to cover the face in the middle. The caption is always humorous, sometimes outwardly so, sometimes a little more dry. Like the comic strip generator, many of the memes are very sarcastic. The face on the meme can often give a tiny hint as to what kind of humor will be portrayed and. It also fits the caption well.

It was difficult to search for another type of generator in which you can generate new information for free or in little time. At first I looked for more essay generators, but most only gave advice on how to construct a better essay or required a fee. I found a thesis generator, but I had to insert all the information of my “essay” for the site to come up with something I could have thought of in seconds. Instead, I typed in “fake ID generator” and found fakenamegenerator.com. It is a website that allows you to put in little information and generate a whole new, although illegitimate, identity. I don’t know what the purpose of this website is, because I doubt using this information would work anywhere. All you have to do is select a gender, nationality, and country that you want to apply to you and the website will construct a whole profile based on those criteria. The profile contains so much information: Full name, partial social security number (you can log on to receive a full one), full address (with geographic coordinates), phone number, birth date and zodiac sign, email address with username and password, occupation, physical characteristics (height, weight, blood type), what kind of car you drive, and more. Overall, it seems like a pretty illegitimate website that’s covered with advertisements and wants to trick you into “signing up” so they can scam you.