There has actually been a lot of that showing up in my google search results for the past few years… there are thousands of sites out there that were created by scraping news articles and blog posts and replacing random words with thesaurus alternatives.

The results vary from incomprehensible to some kind of uncanny valley “is this just…really terrible writing or am I having a brain problem?” territory.

I’ve actually encountered lively discussions of these sorts of cloned articles with nary a mention of the weird writing.

With what we’ve seen from AI text and image generators recently, it’s only going to get weirder soon.