this is just so easy from a computational-linguistics perspective that i see very little hope in stopping it. it's the same method of generating automatic text that you can find by searching various iffy terms on google and getting back tons of links with URLs like www.true-kim-kardsahsian-sex-video-xxxx.com and so on (the URLs, in this case, being auto-generated and sometimes the content of the pages too). in the last 2 years i have started to see blog pages that approach being indistinguishable from human-created blogs. But I've yet to see one (as far as i know!) that could hold the illusion. google tries to keep these guys out of their results, but it seems like a war that, like email spam (also often constructed the same way), can only be held off and not altogether eradicated. as for holding hte illusion: has anyone noticed how many traffic, sports, and weather reports, especially from govt authorities like noaa etc. via audio bands, appears to have had no human involvement other than possibly a sampled voice somewhere far back in history? (that is, the entire alert has been triggered via, assembled, composed by, broadcast and spoken computational methods). DG http://uncomputing.org/ On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Arun Menon <arun.kid86@gmail.com> wrote:
A lot of comments and responses on my official and personal blogs have been redirected to similar machine generated blogs. I thought they were spammed and eventually taken down. Blogspot and Wordpress tries quite hard to keep out machine generated content, going by some of their help sections on spam comments.
There was something on AOIR (or a similar list, my apologies if i got it wrong) that discussed machine generated spam content. Will post it as soon as i find it in the archives.
Is anyone on the list aware of studies that examined machine generated content?
Thanks,
Arun
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Stephen J Cavrak Jr <Steve.Cavrak@uvm.edu
wrote:
Blogbots at large?
Does anyone here know the story (stories) behind the apparently machine generated blog(posts) like this one ... http://j.mp/9Zhv6O ... (nee
http://dominic.bestestzone.com/2010/09/04/the-story-of-the-barefoot-bandit/
)
(In this case, bestestzone.com hosts a dozen or so similar blogs, each, interestingly, with a different wordpress template, etc ... #curiousminds
Thoughts, suggestions, hints, etc, appreciated.
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