Things We Saw Today: These AI-Generated Candy Hearts Are the Only Gifts We Need This Valentine’s Day

Have regular Valentine’s gifts got you down? Have candy slogans become too expected? Luckily, research scientist Janelle Shane has our back. Shane fed a whole bunch of candy heart slogans through a neural network learning algorithm, and then was generous enough to share the results with the public. They. Are. Spectacular.

Tag yourself, I’m “book.” Or maybe “time hug.” Or maybe all of them.

But wait, there are more!

Eventually, the neural network got a little carried away with the *ahem* romance.

Let us know which possibly nonsensical/potentially inappropriate candy heart you’d send to your bae/self (i.e. the ultimate bae). (via AIWeirdness)

• This is a really great conversation between two paranormal romance writers about what makes that genre so very cool. (via A Love So True)
• This MSNBC graphic was already garbage before I noticed that they accidentally used Sherrod Brown’s picture twice! Not even major media outlets can tell these many white men apart.
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  *drags file to trash* pic.twitter.com/yEHZJ04Chu

  — Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) February 14, 2019

• Paddington is headed to the small screen! (via Indiewire)

Happy Valentine’s/regular Thursday, everyone!

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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.

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