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by TechBro8615 1090 days ago
I've noticed this sometimes where it replaces proper nouns with a synonym, e.g. "Bill Gates" becomes "Invoice Gates." Unfortunately that pattern only applies to the most bottom-of-the-barrel SEO spam. I expect ChatGPT output will be more subtle, but if a lazy spammer doesn't obfuscate it enough, there will still be some tells - e.g. the five paragraph essay format with a conclusion beginning with "overall..."
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Language models have seen enough of this genre of gibberish already that they can imitate it flawlessly.

https://twitter.com/janellecshane/status/1280915484351754240

Amazon here in Europe is overrun with those kind of wrong translations, input by product sellers that just run everything through google translate. Still amazing that a player as big as Amazon accepts all this content, which is just 1 step above gibberish.