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QuillBot: Free Paraphrasing Tool

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

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"...

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.

Since I am not a native English speaker, I use quillbot to make my sentences sound more natural. Especially when I write an email or for the texts on my web apps.

Also, I met the founders before our yc interviews. They are very cool guys, with an impressive tech.

Totally remembered our couch conversation. Appreciate the kind words and support. Hope your startup is doing well and I'm glad you found our website helpful!

Also, I've met quite many office workers in France and Korea that would be very interested in your service. They regularly have to make powerpoint slides in English. This kind of presentations can have a big impact on their careers, but they struggle because of the language. They sometimes call proof-reading services. They are high-quality but not flexible. You have to send them the finished document and cannot make last minute modifications. Maybe, the companies could even pay to make it accessible for their employees (or embedded in an powerpoint). Foreign branches of international corporations could be a good target because the communication between local workers and the HQ is always problematic.

This is so much fun. Does anyone know any opensource alternatives of this kind of text and essay manipulation?

Seems to do a consistent job making comparable sentences. Curious what tech is underneath the UI.

It uses a deep sequence to sequence model, and the drop-down thesaurus are phrase embeddings trained on large corpuses like Reddit and Wikipedia.

What did you use for the parallel data? the paraphrases are much better than an auto-encoder.

Cant get past the captcha.

We considered removing recaptcha, since we are fully aware of how annoying it is, but we had to keep it because of the rampant bot abuse.

Cool idea! I tried it, but it gave me back the same sentence I put in :(. I guess my sentence was not interesting enough. Unfortunately my connection is too slow to poke around more.

I couldn't find the premium pricing anywhere. Now it wants me to signup before I can know it. Maybe I missed it?

It changed the meaning of a paragraph I tested it with.

The system is by no means perfect. If I had to compare it to self driving cars, I'd say its a level 2 on automation safety. You should have your hands on the wheel when you use it, but it still makes driving easier.

I like this. This will help in writing email.

after the fifth captcha chalkenge/demand I quit. please don't waste my time

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