http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2009/11/17/i-get-spam/ All the etcetera that's fit to read. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2009/11/17/i-get-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-181284 Notires Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:32 +0000 http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/?p=1171#comment-181284 It looks like Thesaurify to me. You can almost recognize the original text, with a couple of buzzwords like "insert shared disease" so it would get responses. Then somebody (or computer) who doesn't speak English just ran it through the thesaurus so it would get past the spamfilter. This plants two ideas in my head: 1) I have English speaking college students who do a light version of this so it sounds more 'professional' and 'intelligent' than simply writing. 2) We have found the Roget's implementation of the Turing Test. Can a machine writer or non-English speaker sound like an actual human English speaker! It looks like Thesaurify to me. You can almost recognize the original text, with a couple of buzzwords like “insert shared disease” so it would get responses. Then somebody (or computer) who doesn’t speak English just ran it through the thesaurus so it would get past the spamfilter. This plants two ideas in my head: 1) I have English speaking college students who do a light version of this so it sounds more ‘professional’ and ‘intelligent’ than simply writing. 2) We have found the Roget’s implementation of the Turing Test. Can a machine writer or non-English speaker sound like an actual human English speaker!

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