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Wow! That is meaningless but difficult to distinguish at a glance, especially when read by someone not familiar with the subject.

Are we going to see such auto generated content take over as the primary pillar of the SEO content farms?

... Kinda like an automated (text) version of Siraj Raval videos :-P

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It's interesting how the first paragraph in particular reads like a deflection of the original question, somewhat akin to a middle manager avoiding exposing their lack of domain expertise in response to a technical question by giving a vague answer.

There were heaps of semantic pathways the network could have chosen such as guessing what a borrower is, or maybe even weighing the significance of "borrower" more than rust in the original question because it has no clue what rust+borrower is; but it instead picked the safer option of deflection. Fascinating stuff.

Pattern matching on noise yields false positives, more news at 11.

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