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Excellent stuff. I remember using online translators for mangling text in the early 00s. Pass the text through several languages and then back into English. It was far more effective back then because the translators were so much worse.
I remember Simon Ings being very excited when he used one to translate a French review of one of his novels into English. He was particularly pleased with the phrase, "packing, bang hard and cyberporno".
iotar wrote: Sun 17 May, 2026 6:39 pmPass the text through several languages and then back into English. It was far more effective back then because the translators were so much worse.
One of PKD's most astonishingly specific predictions is bored office workers doing this as an online game in Galactic Pot Healer
Indeed. As far as I remember there's quite a lot about the I Ching in that one too.
I accidentally came across some web crawler tarpits, which may have also used Markov chains for generating garbage links. I found those pages endlessly fascinating. I understand something similar is being do now to trap LLM scrapers again: