• dave@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      An AI-written article from early 2019?

      Yes, the date could be fake. But there’s also a reason the AIs write the way they do…

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            Great: now I’m having an existential crisis due to a shitty article about shoes.

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          Usually when I see older articles like this I assume it was written in another language and then translated to english.

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            It’s a site that sells things. Someone looked at Google analytics and saw that the term “heel counter” gets searched a lot. It’s a topic that requires like 2 sentences to explain but Google rewards lengthy articles that have the magic phrase the most times. So some SEO “expert” ends up writing a lengthy article about something mundane and easy to explain and then wedges the word “heel counter” in to it as many times as possible. Which makes it read weird as shit if you don’t know what’s going on.

            If you Google heel counter, this is the first result for a reason.

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      I think you might just be hyper aware of it and see it in places that are not AI written. This reads fine to me, very stereotypical article where you only need to read every other sentence in every other paragraph because the writer was fluffing for ad space. It’s hard to write a “scrollable” article about a very specific piece of a shoe.

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      Doesn’t really look AI written to me, but maybe this is a case of “AI was trained on these articles and writes like them” and you’re getting it backwards.