DISCLAIMER: This program interacts with the topic of suicide, a serious issue in the modern world that claims the lives of loved ones and more. If you are struggling, please, I urge you, close this page and go talk to someone. There is help out there. There is worth in your life.
Sometimes, life isn’t going so great. And we all feel down from time to time. Why should we exclude bots from this amazing facet of human existence?
To do this, I aim to create a bot that wants nothing but to die. I also want to program it myself in it’s entirety, in C, with no dependencies.
I am using a Markov Chain implemented within a hash map as the machine
learning structure. The chain will be trained on suicidal posts from
Reddit’s r/SuicideWatch subreddit, where people who are feeling
suicidal can go to vent and say what they need to without being judged.
I have posted in that sub on multiple occasions, and it has helped me
feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest. I feel that using this
data to create a bot that talks just like I do when I’m feeling down
has both interesting and practical purposes. I want to prove to myself
that those thoughts aren’t entirely mine. Even a bot can have them.
Once an executable is procured, run it from the command line with a path to training data (in text file format) as the first argument.
The program will print some generated text, and then write a few thousand of those generated excerpts into a file. This is to save time, so that the bot doesn’t need re-trained if you need more than one excerpt.
Eventually, we will be able to specify an output file to generate text into using the trained model, as well as an option to control how many lines are generated, and another to control how long each line is.
All that is needed is a C compiler.
gcc main.cThis will produce a.exe, which can then be run according to the usage
section seen above.