Similar Stories to Algorithms Can Write Fake Reviews That Humans Rate As "helpful" on Bing News

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Tue, 09/05/2017 - 10:29am

One of the reasons that online review sites still have some utility is that "crowdturfing" attacks (in which reviewers are paid to write convincing fake reviews to artificially raise or lower a business or product's ranking) are expensive to do well, and cheap attacks are pretty easy to spot and nuke. (more…)

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