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Ask HN: Is this a double translation to avoid copyright violations?
I was about to read an article about the just completed baseball game between the Yankees and Red Sox, when a snippet from a Google search caught my eye:
8 minutes ago · This time Xander Bogaerts and
Kyle Schwarber hit dwelling runs off Gerrit
Cole, because the Red Sox beat the Yankees,
6-2, within the American ...
The article itself[0] is rife with incorrect usage and really odd use of language.
So I wondered, is this an auto-generated article?
Upon further reflection, it reads more like something translated from English to a foreign language and then (poorly) auto-translated back to English.
The website in question appears to be based in India, but is entirely in English (sort of).
Here's the first paragraph of the article:
BBucky Dent was within the stadium, the
calendar stated October, and every staff
wanted to win to maintain its season alive. It
had been 43 years since Dent’s well-known
dwelling run helped the Yankees win the final
elimination recreation between these storied
rivals at Fenway Park, and almost a half-
century later, Boston lastly received a small
measure of revenge for that exact recreation.
What might compel someone to do that? To disguise that the work is plagiarized? Some other reason? I find it quite mystifying.
[0] https://popnews247.com/2021/10/06/yankees-are-done-season-ends-in-a-wild-card-loss-to-the-red-sox/
- nobody9999 5y agoIt appears that my suspicions may be correct. The article mentioned appears to be an inferior and redacted copy of this article[0] from the New York Times (archive.is version here[1]). Ans so I continue to wonder what the motivation might be for doing so, as those who can read English with even minor proficiency and have even a passing familiarity with baseball would immediately see it as something really abnormal. The other really odd thing is that it appeared as the the third result in a search for the title of the NYT article. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/sports/baseball/yankees-red-sox-wild-card-playoff.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/sports/baseball/yankees-r... [1] https://archive.is/iW2ur https://archive.is/iW2ur
- retrac 5y agoReminds me how spam sometimes come with systematically mis-spelled terms to get around the spam scoring mechanisms like how many times "Viagra" shows up. Usually much smarter than just a list these days though. I suspect it's like that. Intended to get around automatic detection, while still showing up in search results.