are the conlangers using LLMs to generate new words for their conlangs now or have we not quite gotten to that point yet

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@Lady please lets not turn the conlangs subconsciously sharing the same principles as english dial up to 11 like that

@Satsuma @Lady There are a fair number of Chinese options, I wonder if you could shake the English out of them enough to get something usefully different.

(I am a little curious about something like word2vec: "this word but more regal" or something might be interesting to try with a conlang, though I don't remember whether it's feasible to get novel words out of that kind of thing.)

@aschmitz @Satsuma oh to be clear i think that people SHOULDN’T try to get a computer to generate a language, but there are lots of people who want to make real-sounding fake sentences quickly without doing all the work that Building A Proper Language From Scratch might take

and “make real-sounding fake [thing] quickly without work” seems like the sort of problem people love throwing LLMs at, so

large language models aren’t capable of devising and consistently applying a novel grammar OR phonological system but a lot of people probably simply don’t care

there are existing tools out there which, for example, you can put some phonological rules into and have it spit out random words which follow those rules, and i still don’t like them but at least their output will be consistent

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