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Re:To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ... by gitgud on Friday May 22, 2020 @09:36PM (#23279028)
Unethical Continuation of This Idea:

Scrape existing news sites, and use machine learning to paraphrase everything so Google doesn't detect plagiarism.

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Re:To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ... by zaphods3rdhead on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:49PM (#23279403)
US military has already been working on this for ~ a decade. There was a contract out of Redstone Arsenal where they writing "story spinners" to scrape and re-word war-time propaganda.
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Re:To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ... by hedora on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:55PM (#23279433)
I wonder if mechanical turk is still cheap enough to have humans paraphrase and insert seo keywords.

In this new dystopia, generating content for the machines to read could be a decent job for a human.

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