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‘Deep Drumpf’ Twitterbot Uses AI To Tweet Like Donald Trump With Hilarious Results

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A Twitterbot based on the the controversial outpourings of Donald Trump is sending tweets that mimic the Republican presidential candidate with hilarious consequences.

‘Deep Drumpf’ is the work of Bradley Hayes, a researcher at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The @DeepDrumpf Twitterbot uses deep learning techniques, similar to Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) tech.

The AI analyses the language patterns used in transcripts of Trump’s speeches and debates in order to mimic them.

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The Deep Drumpf profile picture, which appears to have been run through Google’s DeepMind software (Twitter/Deep Drumpf)

So far, the AI has done a great job of aping the the Republican frontrunner, coming up with a series of nonsensical gems that somehow still sound exactly like something Trump would say.

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The Deep Drumpf name is a nod to British satirist John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight, in which he encouraged people to call Trump by his ancestral name - the slightly less impressive sounding Drumpf.

This joke came from a jibe Trump made at Oliver’s former colleague and fellow satirical comedian Jon Stewart, in which he said: “If Jon Stewart is so above it all & legit, why did he change his name from Jonathan Leibowitz? He should be proud of his heritage!”.

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John Oliver fired a metaphorical shot across Trump’s bow on his Last Week Tonight show (HBO)

The hashtag #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain, a play on Trump’s campaign slogan #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, trended worldwide on Twitter after last week’s episode of the satirical show.

The Deep Drumpf AI tweets one letter at a time, so if it randomly begins with the letter ‘M’, it’s likely to be followed by an ‘A’, then a ‘K’ until it types out Trump’s slogan. It carries out the same process on the next sentence and keeps going until it reaches Twitter’s 140-character limit.

The researcher behind the Trump bot hopes to develop AIs for other presidential candidates so that they can take part in a real-time virtual debate.

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