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Japanese Spacecraft Will Shoot Martian Moons in 8K Decision (newshables.com)
10 points by tokstesla 2114 days ago
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This is an auto-generated story, not sure how it was written but definitely not human. For example:

'...it might be the primary time in historical past Mars and its moons are captured in such element.

To drag it off, the 2 organizations are teaming as much as develop the “Tremendous Hello-Imaginative and prescient Digicam...”

What software would write "to drag it off", obviously this is based on the idea behind "to pull it off" as no one ever says 'drag' in that context.

I feel like this kind of auto-article-spam is increasingly polluting the open web...

Compare to the linked source (at least they link the source!): https://futurism.com/the-byte/japanese-spacecraft-shoot-mart...

"...it could be the first time in history Mars and its moons are captured in such detail.

To pull it off, the two organizations are teaming up to develop the “Super Hi-Vision Camera..."

Looks like it's replacing words with synonyms while failing to take context into account.

(Why are they doing this? Google penalizes content that's copied from somewhere else. The high-effort way to circumvent that is to have a human rewrite the article, just like futurism.com rewrote phys.org's post of JAXA's press release. The low-effort way is to mutilate the content until it becomes unrecognizable.)

Thanks for explaining!
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