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by ahmedhawas123 276 days ago
Random tidbit - 15+ years ago Markov chains were the go to for auto generating text. Google was not as advanced as it is today at flagging spam, so most highly affiliate-marketing dense topics (e.g., certain medications, products) search engine results pages were swamped with Markov chain-created websites that were injected with certain keywords.
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For auto-generating non-sensical texts and SEO spam; for actual text generation, planners and realizers were the to-go approach (and ~5 years later it was all LTSMs)