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[Simmura McCrea]

Kurt Vonnegut... Never heard of ...

Wut

How? :I

No, really. I checked his bibliography on wikipedia. Never heard of any of it.

[Darvi]

A monkey who farted on a typewriter apparently.

[Vector]

A monkey who farted on a typewriter apparently.

... They didn't actually give that result, did they... ?

[Darvi]

Do I look like I'm kidding?

[RedKing]

Yeah, I saw that thing a year or two ago. Apparently, my formal writing for grad school came across as Cory Doctorow.

Forget what my creative writing came across, as I do very little of that. I spend a lot of time designing places and languages and such, but virtually never try to actually write fiction set in it. Go fig.

[anzki4]

Got J.R.R. Tolkien with small story quickly written from scratch for the 'test'.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Once upon time, there was a small village. It was an rather ordinary village on kingdom of the X those days. It was split in half by a small creek, with elven living on the other side and dwarf on the the other. Village was on  rather idyllic location; far from big cities and criminals and adventures those attract; surrounded by green meadows and golden fields. It was peaceful village - with the exception of occasional clashes between the elven and the dwarf. The city itself was very beautiful too; the magnificent marble buildings of the dwarfs and the wooden huts and spectacular, exotic garden of the elves, all peacefully in the same village.

However one day something happened.

One dwarf called Urist Epic got drunk on one of the idyllic little taverns of the dwarf, and went on rampage. He killed every dwarf and elf in that down with his bare hands; he ripped them and punched them and kicked them and bit them and then; he bit both of his legs off.

And then he lived happily drunk for the rest of his life, which took around fifty minutes because of the loss of blood.

EDIT: And by writing random gibberish that meant nothing, I got William Shakespeare

[Aqizzar]

One of my forum posts returned Cory Doctorow.  Two different creative-writing-type things that will never see the light of day got Jonathan Swift and Anne Rice.

Throwing in the two "tl;dr" blocks from my big Michigan screed (sans acronym) returned H.P. Lovecraft.  Read into that what you will.  EDIT: Putting in just the first paragraph returned Daniel Defoe.  Something about adding the second paragraph, alone or together, makes it overpoweringly Lovecraftian.  I suppose if I had ever read one of his books, I might understand why.

[Heliman]

I got L. Frank Baum.
...
Who the hell is L. Frank Baum? The fucker who wrote the Wizard of Oz, that's who. Apparently I'm just knee fucking deep in all of that fantasy shit with rusty heartless motherfuckers and brainless sacks of hay all up in, with flying monkeys that fling shit overhead.


Also Dan Brown, I've never heard of him or any of his books ever.

[Vector]

Also Dan Brown, I've never heard of him or any of his books ever.

The DaVinci Code.

[Megaman]

So apparently I write like Douglas Adams.

[alway]

As to how it works, my guess would be Hidden Markov Models, since we did exactly what this website does as an in class exercise for my 'Probabilistic Reasoning for AI & Game Design' course. Or at least that's how it would work if it was done to actually be accurate. It may use another inferior method in order to calculate faster.

[Ricky]

doing two small blips of passage-worthy posts I made long ago, I came up with James Joyce.

[Heron TSG]

And then I pasted the same story in three more times to try to simulate this random choice, and I got it again.

Did you clear your cookies?

You may be right with that category-of-writer thing, Vector. I went back and pasted in excerpts from famous authors' books, and generally they came back as being written like a similar writer, on the many occasions that the site didn't give back the original author.

[Heliman]

Also Dan Brown, I've never heard of him or any of his books ever.

The DaVinci Code.

oh yeaaaahhhh.

[Leafsnail]

Just under 2 years ago I wrote like Cory Doctorow, whoever that is.