The Iterative Paraphrasing Experiment: How GenAI Morphs a Story Over 100 Rewrites
Rewriting / Rephrasing content has been of specific interest to me for a long time. Even before NLP or GenAI was a thing, I ran a SaaS tool called Article Spinner back in the day (2008 to 2013). Selling 100 rewrites @ $5. Which was used by content farms in creating different variants of “unique content” from a single piece of content.
Now with tools like ChatGPT, it is no more a specialized task that requires specialized tools. But even while building Article Spinner, my focus used to be on how much of intent and details are retained from the original text after iterations of spinning.
We’ll take a source string, and iteratively rephrase the string using an LLM and look how the Dice Coefficient changes over iterations. Heavily inspired by this experiment of re-uploading a video over and over again to Youtube!
The sun dipped below the horizon, painting the sky in hues of orange and pink, while a cool breeze carried the scent of blooming jasmine. Emma sat on the weathered wooden bench in the park, watching children chase fireflies and listening to the distant murmur of the stream. The tranquility of the moment was broken only by the occasional chirping of crickets, a natural symphony that seemed to amplify the serenity of her surroundings. She closed her eyes briefly, allowing herself to be fully immersed in the embrace of nature, feeling the rough texture of the bench against her palms. A sense of calm washed over her, reminding her of childhood evenings spent in a similar park, where worries seemed like a distant concept. Now, as an adult, moments like these were rare treasures, brief escapes from the relentless pace of life. The simplicity of the evening, she thought, held a profound beauty that modern distractions often masked. Emma inhaled deeply, savoring the fleeting peace.
