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Comment on: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
It's not a woke sensitivity thing. They're using spinners, tools designed for spammers years ago (long predating LLMs) that just randomly substitute words from a thesaurus.It works because so many academic journals are write-only media. The only things that actually "read" the papers are machines that check for plagiarism, compute citation counts and do other things used to decide on academic promotions. So it doesn't matter if the text is nonsensical.And the tools work for spam, the original use case, because people who want to buy Viagra from spam mails don't care if they have to read weird