Comments on: Spambot of the day https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:21:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Michael Lonie https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/#comment-1525897 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:21:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60922#comment-1525897 Possibilities:
German Idealist philosophy spam.
Frankfurt School Marxists (it reads a bit like some of Marcuse’s work).
All your bases are belong us.

]]> By: Philip https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/#comment-1521392 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:48:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60922#comment-1521392 Nick gave me an idea. I tried writing a reasonable short paragraph which was not too outlandish, concerning the piece of spam in question and my impression thereof, then ran it through several iterations with Google Translate, going from English to Greek to Danish to Thai and back to English.

The product of that process was insufficiently amusing to me, so I continued through Hebrew, Tamil, Russian, Arabic, Vietnamese and then again back to English, whereupon this came out:

Intruder seems to be little understanding of the language of the actual content. It is impossible to reconcile the beauty of the model, and therefore believes that it should reflect the mood of the transplant. We continue to emphasize that this is not possible, regardless of all the technical updates, smart, and I do not think it’s up to us to do it in this section. So give us a good reason!

… which is mildly funny to me, but really not quite what I was talking about in the original. The thing is that Google Translate seems to get close enough to the original meaning after all those iterations that I can’t find the end product humorous enough. Oh, well.

Keep giving us a good reason, Neo! 🙂

]]> By: Nick https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/#comment-1520023 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:17:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60922#comment-1520023 My bet, this was originally a statement of genuine praise for someone whose site makes the complicated seem simple and interesting – in another language. Then some bad translation software got a hold of it.

]]> By: brdavis9 https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/#comment-1519712 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:20:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60922#comment-1519712

It sort of feels as well complex and really significant for me.

True, dat’

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/#comment-1519525 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:12:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60922#comment-1519525 I think the spambot carried an infection and your site is affected.

]]> By: Lee https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/#comment-1518716 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 09:05:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60922#comment-1518716 I was listening to NPR the other day, and they were marveling over some crappy artificial intelligence generated poetry. It sounded like what I “ketchup bottle poetry”: you read the label of a ketchup bottle and imitate the serious sonorous voids of Maya Angelou, you will skid like you’re reading “meaningful poetry.” The stuff the radio was crap — and the marveled over it!!! I was thinking, “Let’s hear how it fits Yeats…”

This spambot is better, I think.

]]> By: Matt_SE https://thenewneo.com/2016/08/08/spambot-of-the-day-119/#comment-1517180 Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:27:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60922#comment-1517180 Sounds like a post-doc thesis in Gender Studies. Could use a little more jargon, though.

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