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lkm0today at 1:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's actually pretty funny to look for such synonym expressions https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22h... turns up a few more. If you want to read more, I believe those are called "tortured phrases"


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kortextoday at 2:42 PM

> "Tortured phrases" are bizarre, nonsensical word combinations—such as "counterfeit consciousness" instead of "artificial intelligence"

Conterfeit Consciousness is gonna be the name of my new post-liquid analog modular synth IDM project.

I feel like these text spinners could actually be an untapped gold mine for creatively naming things.

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kaddartoday at 1:17 PM

Well, yes, and I call them 'distressed phrases'

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armchairhackertoday at 1:21 PM

From 2021: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751

And SCIgen was generating bullshit papers that actually managed to be published in 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen