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Bot-Generated NASA Fake News Word Salad

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 27, 2017
Bot-Generated NASA Fake News Word Salad

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Keith’s note: This is what happens when an Indian text generator bot with a poor English module tries to autowrite an article on the next NASA administrator and then autotweets it through a Twitter bot. Or, better yet, this article has been cycled back and forth through an autotranslator bot between one language and another multple times with new translation errors piled on top of previous translation errors – and is then tweeted out by a bot that says it is in the Cayman Islands.
Actually this is all about click bait that sends you to a landing site with ads. Every time someone visits the ad gets seen. There are just enough words in what appear to be sentences to fool the search bots. But there are more sophisticated bots out there that actually write news stories automatically and in many cases you have no idea that you are reading something written by a non-fuman. It is going to become increasingly common to see news stories that have never been touched by human hands, so to speak.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

9 responses to “Bot-Generated NASA Fake News Word Salad”

  1. spambot1 says:
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    what this reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/wat

  2. Reavenk says:
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    I don’t know what’s up with that site in general; it looks like a website of gibberish trigger words to fool SEO bots for superficial ad views, but the site has no ads – and the content is too poor to attempt to pawn stuff off as fake news.

    • kcowing says:
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      Yea. Its click bait with a landing site with ads. There are just enough words in what appear to be sentences to fool the search bots. But there are more sophisticated bots out there that actually write news stories automatically. It is going to become increasingly common to see news stories that have never been touched by human hands, so to speak.

      • mfwright says:
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        You said it was click bait for ads, so I didn’t go there. Thanks for the warning (though some probably ignored you).

  3. Saturn1300 says:
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    Wild. My local paper with a story on Puerto Rico said the house had slabs of zinc for roofing. Sheet metal of course it meant.

  4. Paul451 says:
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    The fact that you linked to it now raises its ranking on Google.

    • kcowing says:
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      Yea. I do not intend to make a habit of this – just an illustration of what sort of automated bots are out there generating Internet content without any real human intervention.

  5. Donald Barker says:
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    “never been touched by human hands” and also never edited by a human brain or other for being factual and objective. Welcome to the wonderful future of immediate propaganda-speak. The Sci-fi writers so often get it correct sooner or later – and it will be a long time before AI will be able to prognosticate and create good science fiction.

  6. Nelson Bridwell says:
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    category: clueless