An anti-tank missile for a headache? The Internet is overwhelmed by nonsensical texts
The prospect of profiting from online advertising has prompted many entrepreneurs to churn out quick-fermenting content. Some have bet on the potential for mass dissemination of viral tabloids or conspiracy articles. Others have taken even more effort in the level of effort they are willing to expend. And they are putting droves of automatically generated translations online
Generative AI has fundamentally changed the production of online content: the internet has been flooded with tons of textual junk. New data show how these tools are used for industrial-scale writing and translation of articles. The result is a loss of meaning and quality that the average reader can hardly detect. Enterprising people today turn mainly to two methods. The first is generating "tabloid" articles, often entirely made up, especially about celebrities. The second is mass machine translation of stolen texts into other languages, in which meaning is lost and nonsense arises. In practice, chains of repeated translations have also appeared, where a text is translated as many as nine times and ends up as completely different information.Two quick ways to produce low-quality content
