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A dubious writing style emerging in science

Source: Hacker News

Article note: The incentive structure is to vomit papers, so people vomit papers. Here we see the naturally resulting arms race between plagiarism detection tools and "automatic paraphrasing" tools in action. Some of the automatic paraphrases are amazing, "flag to clamor" for signal to noise, "focal preparing unit" for CPU, "arbitrary right of passage" for random access.
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