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Looks like a great force-multiplier tool to assist the fake product review business!



It's still far more economical and effective to hire real people to type those. Plus, it's easy to recognize fully conciseness-optimized English. And when leaving reviews, your average person doesn't write the most concise English possible.

Neural networks are capable of optimizing English. The knowledge and capacity to do this is already globally widespread. Sorry to be the one to tell you.


Glad you agree. I suspect QuillBot is not ideal for fake reviews anyways since you would likely want a diversity of positive opinions rather than the same ones regurgitated. What I'm really excited to see is, where this technology goes in regards to education and writing enhancement. (For clarity, I'm the CEO of Quillbot)


Your product is a good tool for teaching improved English. A tutor once told me, for a standardized English test, the shortest answer option that still sounds natural is likely the right one. I nearly aced it.


Well, sure... if you're looking for an "invisible idiot" solution. This short passage from Terry Pratchett:

"The expression on the face of Lord Havelock Vetenari was, for a moment, a picture. And it was a picture painted by a very modern artist, one who had been smoking something generally considered to turn the brain to cheese."

was rendered as

"Lord Havelock Vetenari's expression on the face was a picture for a moment. And it was a picture painted by a very modern artist who generally thought to turn the brain into cheese, smoking something."

Language is hard.


Like I commented on below, the system is still imperfect. Its about a level 2 safety if compared to a self driving car, and it will not being doing stunt tricks any time soon. That being said, we are hopeful that it is only a matter of time.


Yup. Why does it avoid saying what this it ? it's a spintax tool.


The main difference between Quillbot and spinners, is that a majority of people we've surveyed say they use QuillBot for suggestions on their writing. I'd give it a good chance on providing a better sentence structure if you are a non native speaker.


Also a force-multiplier for the plagiarized essays industry!


"Additionally an impetus product for the misconduct treatise hard-working"...




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