Large-Scale Text Clustering Reveals Shocking Overlap in Human Rewriting
RexDouglass · x · 2026-08-21
Based on experience with large-scale human text clustering, the author notes a shocking overlap in how people re-describe the same things, often slightly modifying existing text just enough to appear different. In news corpora, this is particularly evident as identical stories with different nouns. This tweet comments on an academic defense regarding whether 'mere overlap of sentences' constitutes plagiarism.
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