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Solid domain generator
So true! It could be fine tuned more explicitly on existing domains and their popularity.
Agreed! Put an affiliate link to namecheap.com or your registrar of choice, many of these words sound like brandable startup names.
I've always wanted to explore the word2vec space to find the most sparsely populated region, then (assuming you can train some sort of reverse vec2word model) coin that word that the English language was apparently sorely lacking.
It's too bad that even the best dimensionality reduction algorithms still really suck. Visualizing and inspecting latent spaces is super sweet and eventually I think it will become extremely useful and common...
I read it as "This World Does Not Exist", which would be a fantastic NFT collection.
This NFT is not real.
It could also be an article on any of: psychology, physics, philosophy or Buddhism.
the .com domain looks like it was registered a few hours ago

Hope that was you!

Haha, nope, unfortunately it wasn't.
Create an NFT and then trademark the invented word.

  resillience
  re·sil·lience

    the quality or state of toleration; tolerability
    "our resillience toward the world"
Hmm.. Maybe they need to do a soundex comparison to avoid this sort of problem?
I got "nonfalsifiable", which I'm pretty sure is a real weird.
The ability to synthetically generate real words could be considered a feature -- a sign that it is working well. Was the definition correct?
I got "boochy" and I'm going to use it today at standup: "having or showing a characteristic or exaggerated enthusiasm for a particular activity or situation"
It took all of three tries to get an existing slang word.

"clunge" - not safe for many working environments.

I got words that do exist, for example "high-performance motor"[1] and "retrogradeness"

[1]https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/sxFD

That's fine, I guess, for a silly website - but it's not hard for me to imagine a company taking this idea, "AI/ML created X" and selling X's, even copyrighting them... when X already exists in the real world

I imagine in real life applications you’d need to add a bit of checks and balances around the ML output (e.g. cross check against a dictionary/copyright database)
> even copyrighting them

copyrighting isn't (at least, in US law) a distinct action people take. If it is subject to copyright, the it is copyrighted on creation by operation of law.

> when X already exists in the real world

To the extent that a thing is copyrightable by nature , coincidental existence of an identical thing doesn't make it any less so. It might make it difficult to prove it as a creation rather than a copy if challenged (or to prove that an alleged infringement was a copy of it rather than the identical doppelganger), though.

This one's pretty nice:

driftly

    (of water) flowing in a slow, sweeping way
    "a driftly waterfall"
That would make an interesting word game: mix in unusual words and you have to guess which ones are real.

I bet some would get adopted eventually.

"The game comprised two teams of three (a captain and two guests) who would compete to earn points by determining the correct definitions to obscure words. The teams took turns to give three definitions, one true and two bluffs, while the other team attempted to determine which was correct. If the correct choice was made the team earned one point, if not, the bluffing team earned one point. Both teams took turns turns bluffing and determining definitions.

Examples of words used in the show, taken from a 1972 book published in connection with the it, include "queach", "strongle", "ablewhacket", "hickboo", "jargoon", "zurf", "morepork", and "jirble". "Queach", for instance, was defined as "a malicious caricature", "a cross between a quince and a peach" and "a mini-jungle of mixed vegetation". The first and second of those were bluffs. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Bluff

There's a version of Scrabble that's played with made-up words only.
My word was a bit disturbing. Meat cooked in a sauce of raw meat over ice. Yum.

Plumata:

a dish with layers of meat, vegetables, or seafood cooked in a sauce of raw meat, vegetables, and herbs, typically over ice and typically served with other fresh ingredients

Sounds like something straight from the Don't Starve (videogame) cookbook.
I would try this "beef ceviche" dish if I knew it was from a safe source. Can't be worse than rare steak.
Steak tartare might be a good first step before this.
Steak tartare is one of the most underrated dishes. I prefer mine after a few minutes over a flame grill, a piece of cheese, and a round roll. That can turn it into something that I really think would catch on if people tried it.
Similarly:

parceleducate parcele·d·u·cate transfer (the intestines) into offspring, typically as a sacrifice

Sounds like an SCP ritual.

SCP-6121

Object class, Keter.

Upon the birth of offsprings SCP-6121-A, subject will feed SCP-6121-A via the process of parceleducation. Intestinal matter will be sourced from the closest biological entity within a 300 metre radius, replacing the organic tissue with an organ SCP-6121-B.

The Church of Featherless Birds is known to invoke parceleducation as part of its initiation ceremony. Those possessing SCP-6121-B are known as disciples of the Vulture King.

If they haven't trained off SCP Foundation material, they should.

(Or someone with a bit of spare time should. Then again, maybe they have, and this is the 7th time I've made that suggestion).

We don't have an SCP-055, is this your first day?
Another SCP-sounding one:

noun. endosciller en·dosciller

    a surgical instrument that conceals the central organs so as to be able to swallow blood
    "a cardiac endosciller"
Yeah so on the disturbing scale, I think this one is quite good:

extroraptor

ex·tro·rap·tor

a device by which a fetus is detached from another animal by means of an entrails lasso and inserted in other muscles

"underhanded methods of caressing the fetus with an extroraptor device"

Sounds delicious.

I just got “mycobiology”, with a perfectly correct definition. I’m guessing its dictionary is incomplete, and it reinvented that word on its own.

Yeah well the first word I got was this...

cronyize: convert (something, especially the skin of a pregnant woman) to a cork or tar by treating the cork and tar with ice or other heat-resistant fat, then applying the skin on top of it to make sure it is moisturized

I once dreamt a word, and when I woke up and looked it up, it didn't exist anywhere. I wonder if I refresh this page long enough, whether it would eventually appear.
In theory, yes. But it would take an infinite amount of time, unless you're like SUPER lucky and get it on the third refresh or something :D
In theory, no. There is no reason to think this neural net will output every possible string given enough time. That'd be quite unexpected.
You might as well wait for a monkey to type it on a typewriter.
Allow me to extend my contrafibularities for creating such a fun little project.
The definition of that would would be along the lines of “Anti calf bone feelings” or “opposition to calf bone like sentiments” if it follows standard English and was being used in the correct context
I got pre-cognition. Ahem.
dipman dip·man

    a man who dipped his penis (of the head) into water
    "chad became a dipman (especially during the American Revolution)"
Needs a link at the bottom to register it a domain :)
Agreed. The author might even make a few bucks if he made it an affiliate link (I believe several of the registrars have affiliate programs).

Like others in this thread, I've really been tempted to register a few of the ones it's come up with for me. I will definitely come back and give it a whirl the next time I need a new name.

I know everyone's going to post their favorite word but this one made me chuckle:

    adjective.
    refereeless
    having or showing good judgment
    "the refereeless refereeing of the 1968 Summer Olympics"
In the same vein:

mammical - relating to mammals "mammical mammal food"

Or

tachycloid - a fossilized fingerless skull consisting mainly of rounded fragments, each containing paired digits

I kinda want to see art generated from that last one as a prompt. Sounds terrifying.

Perhaps pipe the definition through one of those AIs that generate art from text descriptions?
More confused on mine than anything.

noun.

shiznitpats

shiznit·pats

a $10 bill placed across the chest of another prisoner without proper reason, typically for mental anguish

"the shiznitpats were held and transferred to juvenile detention center"

I’m dying, this is great. So much to love, particularity the utterly absurd syllable breakdown

geographography ge·ographog·ra·phy the art or science of drawing maps "technical advances in geographography"

Appears to be a collection of perfectly cromulent words; someone should propulgate them into wider use in order to embiggen the vocabulary of our youth.
approbated!
ISO C++ is probably working on std::embiggen<T, traits, options, defaults>.
I understood every word of that!

What even makes a word 'real'? I think is the bigger question, if you can say something that everyone implicitly understands, is that not real?

    excalculate
    ex·cal·cu·late
    present (something) as a number to prove a mathematical result, check an error, or settle an argument
    "excalculate your estimate with the data at hand"