Title: DeepTingle,
Abstract: DeepTingle is a text prediction and classification system trained on the
collected works of the renowned fantastic gay erotica author Chuck Tingle.
Whereas the writing assistance tools you use everyday (in the form of
predictive text, translation, grammar checking and so on) are trained on
generic, purportedly "neutral" datasets, DeepTingle is trained on a very
specific, internally consistent but externally arguably eccentric dataset. This
allows us to foreground and confront the norms embedded in data-driven
creativity and productivity assistance tools. As such tools effectively
function as extensions of our cognition into technology, it is important to
identify the norms they embed within themselves and, by extension, us.
DeepTingle is realized as a web application based on LSTM networks and the
GloVe word embedding, implemented in JavaScript with Keras-JS.