This doesn‘t sound like AI. LLMs do not use dictionary definitions for translating a paper this way. It does look like some translation engine like Google Translate or worse, maybe with some text obfuscator trying to avoid plagiarism detection.

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userbinator 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, this looks like something which predates AI by several decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning

	▲	duskwuff 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's my theory as well - and I suspect that, somewhere, there's a configuration file that the fraudsters are sharing. It's the simplest possible explanation for why certain tortured phrases show up so often.

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wavemode 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LLMs are not the only form of AI.

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anamexis 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Simple substitution of phrases doesn’t sound like any AI.

	▲	xgulfie 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Autocorrect unleashed doesn't sound like any AI either but that doesn't stop anyone from calling it that

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1over137 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google Translate uses an LLM, last I heard.

	▲	kevin_thibedeau 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Only since 2023.

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gmerc 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That sounds like Anthrophics watermark explanation though.

	▲	LPisGood 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Anthropic’s watermark is just using a known collection of random seeds during output token generation. That’s it. The models always relied on some randomness, here the randomness is fixed and remembered for querying later.