Here
at WordPress.com,
we‘re always looking for ways to improve the blogging experience. We
pride ourselves on taking your suggestions to heart and work
tirelessly to create better tools for you.
Today [1 April],
we’re releasing a game changer.
As WordPress.com becomes easier to
use, one piece of unanswered feedback keeps nagging at us: blogging
is hard! Not only do you have to think of something worth saying, you
have to take valuable time out of your day to write those things down
in an appealing, easy-to-read way! Improvements to WordPress.com can speed up
things like load times, but we simply couldn’t remove human nature
from the equation… until now.
What is AutoMatton?
AutoMatton
uses a simple machine learning algorithm to predict the posts that
you willwrite, taking predictive text and auto-correct to
the next level. Think of it as your own private blogging DeLorean
traveling at 88mph, but without the need for illegally-obtained
plutonium.
AutoMatton
analyzes all of the posts that you’ve published, Facebook statuses
you’ve liked, Google reviews you’ve left, and emails you’ve sent your
mother to produce prose that could have been written by you. Written
by future you, that is. Amazing!
Haven't
written much yet? No worries! AutoMatton will fill in any gaps with
text randomly pulled from three-year-old Yelp reviews and Wil
Wheaton's Twitter feed to produce full, seamless posts.
I haven’t written anything myself
since 2009!
–Matt Mullenweg
How is the content created?
AutoMatton’s
job is to figure out the words that you would use given a specific
topic to write about. It scours your existing words, fills in the
blanks, and checks its own work. Each post AutoMatton writes is
compared to your cannon of work, old report card grades, everything
written by Kurt Vonnegut, and Terms of Service documents from the top
500 most visited websites. AutoMatton then feeds this information back
to itself to improve the accuracy of its predictions. It’s like
magic.
You
can define the approximate word count as well as the number of images
that you’d like to use per post. From there, it’s simply a matter of
providing a topic and pouring yourself a cup of tea. Or whiskey. Or
whiskey with tea.
Once
AutoMatton is enabled, you’ll be asked to fill out a short survey and
provide some links to your existing social media profiles along with
a list of all your living relatives and the password to your Instagram
account. From there, just pick a topic for your post and let
AutoMatton go to work. In just a moment, it will will generate a
title and content and and add your specified number of photos.* All
you need to do is click Publish!
*Note:
all photos will be kittens. Puppy photos will be available in version
1.1.
I wrote the entirety of Richards IV
through VII using AutoMatton!
–William Shakespeare
Never write anything, ever again.
To anyone.
Being
that our roots are within the open source community, we’ll be opening
up this code. We hope to see people build on this work to create
automated solutions for any type of writing -- we see lots of
potential!
Running
late and need to tell your partner? Simply press a button and allow
AutoMatton to have that conversation for you.
Hey
Paul,
Traffic
on the 101 is nuts! On top of that, there was only one small
piece of pork in the entire bowl, and the rest of it was shredded and
dry.
Yes!!!
Boba tea FTW!!!
Mark
Need
to respond to the email from Aunt Rose from two weeks ago? AutoMatton
can tell her all about your new job, without her knowing that it
isn’t you. She might even send you a snowglobe from her trip to the
Grand Canyon for being so nice.
Dear
Aunt Rose,
Hope
you’re having fun in Colorado! I hear it’s beautiful,
like Applebee's with a different name. I wanted to tell you that
I got that job at Star Trek: The Next Generation! I start on Tuesday.
That’ll
do, pig. That’ll do.
Andy
They’ll
never know it wasn’t really you!
How do I get started?
Simply
click the Enable AutoMatton button under Settings → Writing in your
site’s dashboard, or click the button below:
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