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I've been seeing this in news articles as well. Swipe someone else's article, run it through a synonym-replacer algorithm, and have Reddit bots post it on a bun
by PhasmaFelis 5y ago
I've been seeing this in news articles as well. Swipe someone else's article, run it through a synonym-replacer algorithm, and have Reddit bots post it on a bunch of news subs. Presumably the thesaurus work fools Google's just-a-copy detector.
It's the next step in clickbait monetization. Why settle for low-effort content when you can have no-effort content?
- lettergram 5y agoThis is pretty much how corporate news works imo. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen one article then generate a million more. My favorite example, go to google or DuckDuckGo and type: “Xxx number hospitalized” or “yyy new cases” You can type almost any number and get a ton of articles. Not exactly a reprint, but they all seem almost generated
- newsclues 5y agoNext will be a hybrid model where no effort content that begins to trend virally gets a human to tweak it for optimization. Rewriting headlines that bots wrote and A B testing humans vs Software
- withinboredom 5y agoEven more entertaining would be all the traffic being from bots trying to do the same thing.
- coldpie 5y agoThanks to advertising as a business model.
- wolverine876 5y agoCould you share any examples?
- PhasmaFelis 5y agoDon't have any of the actual content handy, but here's an online tool that advertises itself for that specific purpose: https://spinbot.com/ https://spinbot.com/ Google "rewriting tool" for more examples. Apparently it's a lot more common than I'd realized.