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That is interesting. I searched Google for a deleted series of words inside quotes and didn't find any matches. The reason for the changes isn't obvious to me. The timing of their first post and the facts that the recovery account is blocktrades and they were originally posting from SteemPeak reinforces my suspicion about where the funds might be getting directed, although it's mainly just speculation. (I was posting from Steempeak around that time, too, so these are very weak lines of evidence. ;-) On a separate note, we also have the brute force method... roughly 950 SP and 110 SBD in the last week. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRaoSP2aDxGctqwM6wtTzXQc9Ads2fCo9FFHvk8cX5p7G/image.png)
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And another interesting post... ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUeY25wy6iH6yXrkdHjcPnH4t3NH3pNqub9m8Sc6pLQGz/image.png) Especially this paragraph that was deleted from the end of the post: > You might have to let go of things that you love and that you have been attracted to and you might have to let go of things that you know you will never be able to experience again. You might have to let go of things that you have been used to and you might have to let go of things that you will never be able to experience again. You might have to let go of a lot of things that you have been used to and you might have to let go of many things that you have been attracted to. You might have to let go of a lot of things and you might have to let go of a lot of people and you might have to let go of all the people and things that you know that you are supposed to have Another rare mistake. What do you make of the same sentence being repeated 4 times? It definitely suggests some kind of automation.
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Yeah, the sentences are not quite exactly the same, but it's like a "Mad Lib" where someone/something just inserted new clauses into the same sentence structure four times in a row. My gut feeling is still that it's being crafted by GPT-2 or GPT-3. Especially because of the timing of the early posts. I seem to remember a number of Steem posts in the 2019/2020 time frame where people were experimenting with those tools. If I recall correctly, some of the people involved in those conversations later joined the *Witness War* hostilities on the Hive side. Maybe near the beginning a human was proof-reading and fixing the worst parts, but as time went on and they continued to go unnoticed, perhaps they didn't need to bother with edits any more? [This](http://gltr.io/dist/index.html) might be useful, but I'm not sure how to interpret it yet. Found it linked [from here](https://futurism.com/detects-text-written-bot) and tried it out with a couple paragraphs from the top post on that same account. To my eye, the sample below looks similar in coloring to "<i>machine*: unicorn text (GPT2 large)</i>." Also, I note that there's no purple at all. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmU5qPEVWwFZo2Eg4giaHyT9WEp9paoFtNypswr2Yq2jed/image.png) Here are a couple paragraphs from my own post, so I know they were written by a human. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXcjj2pqhRGK26A5kpj1dDzcg8cjH4y2dBeMJYdb1aT6f/image.png) I guess the more green and yellow you see in comparison to red and purple, the more likely it is that an AI wrote it. That article was published in 2019, so maybe there's a better tool available by now.
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This is fascinating - I didn't know this existed and it's incredibly interesting. I'm probably going to get sucked in to it now and lose my day. That would definitely explain why the articles appear to make sense but at the same time, they don't. One of the ones I read seemed to have a random thread that was totally unrelated to the main thread. In a coherent but totally illogical sense. I think you're right in that their posts are being generated in this way - it almost appears obvious now that my eyes have been opened!
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