“Raise your hand if you’ve ever encountered any of the following—and don’t put it down.” becomes “Elevate your hand within the occasion you’ve ever encountered any of the next—and don’t do it down.”
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There is a “hacker news” tag at the bottom that indicates that they‘re scraping the content popular on Hacker News. Here’s another example: Stolen: https://newshimalaya.com/2020/09/30/compact-nuclear-fusion-reactor-is-very-seemingly-to-work-reviews-counsel/ … Original: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-reactor.html …
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Even their Twitter account exhibits the same sort of interesting thesaurus-y mangling of the words. Here, “won” was replaced by “gained” – but rather naïvely.pic.twitter.com/dhKPyHw3fR
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Does anyone have any idea what’s going on? Are the word changes some auto translation back and forth, or deliberate to get rid of the scent? What is the reasoning/business model behind this – ads?
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Here’s another one, with a slightly differently broken “translation” and even a few comments from Hacker News present as native comments under the article: https://jellyent.com/2020/09/30/when-fonts-fall/?lang=en … “Elevate your hand while you’ve ever encountered any of the next—and don’t manufacture it down.”pic.twitter.com/xJxJ2p2weM
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And another one. This is so fascinating to me. https://thecyberguides.com/when-fonts-fall/ … “Lift your hand whereas you’ve ever encountered any of the following—and don’t place it down.”pic.twitter.com/7hBvq3aSVq
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This is apparently called “spinning” and is a dark SEO practice (thx,
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Also TIL rogeting: “modifying a published source by substituting synonyms for sufficient words to fool plagiarism detection software, often resulting in the creation of new meaningless phrases through extensive synonym swapping,” as in “Roget's Thesaurus.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogeting
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