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Re:Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and... by userbinator on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:47AM (#17799181)
Reminds me of the spam text generated for linkfarms and such --- probably because they use the same algorithm. It gives the same "uncanny valley" feeling of looking like it was written by a human, but upon closer inspection becomes much less believable.

Then again, some of them don't look "Markovian" enough and appear to be verbatim real article titles.

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Re:Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and... by aunty_helen on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:00AM (#17799231)
Is there an algorithmic way of detecting this? Sometimes it seems like some of the comments on HN could have been written by an ai.
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