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by falcor84 542 days ago
More likely that they used something like quillbot or grammarly for automatic paraphrasing.
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This was about 15 years ago
grammarly is pretty old, Not sure when it became available, but it was already pretty well established as a high quality writing assistant by ~2012.

It had various tools and heuristicsv to suggest different phrasings and better words that were pretty incredible if compared to anything else back then