There’s something about these neural net lists that makes me a bit sad. It’s duplicating what a good fiction writer already does. But instead of discovering a wonderful and strange new place name in the context of a well-made world, it’s just another thing in a list. “Stoke of Inch” might be a brilliant place name for a story. But I wouldn’t use it now (or would feel hesitant to use it now) having seen it generated here. How do I know a dozen other writers haven’t snapped up that name and applied it to their worlds already?
I know that in storytelling there is no such thing as pure originality with no antecedents, but this seems different somehow. I’m sure we’ll have a good discussion on it here.
