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Maybe I've just been following computer generated content too much, but it was fairly obvious to me when reading the WallStreetHack generated website that it wa
by merlincorey 7y ago
Maybe I've just been following computer generated content too much, but it was fairly obvious to me when reading the WallStreetHack generated website that it was in fact generated content.
For example, the following paragraph seems to me to display a clear synthetic generation because the phrasing is very repetitive and the context is never really expanded, even though we have several sentences (which a human writer would almost certainly have condensed):
> One of the ways that a creditor knows if you owe money is when you pay the balance. But, how does an insurance company know if someone has a medical condition or is in medical crisis? Well, it does this to see if you have insurance or are suffering from a medical emergency. In order to determine whether you have insurance, a medical professional performs a background check in order to determine whether any medical problems may exist. These background checks can show whether or not you are in medical crisis and whether or not payment of the debt is being considered.
- Baeocystin 7y agoIf I'd come across those sentences while browsing, I'd have assumed that it was some low-grade SEO blogospam written by a Mechanical Turk participant. That some Markov-chain-with-extra-steps generated it instead is of mild interest. But! I am also 100% certain that a lot of people, particularly non-technical ones, wouldn't even think that it could have been machine-written, even as kludgy as it is. I think there is very real reason to be concerned by this, although I am at a loss as to what to do about it.