As a writer, you might have experience of taking an existing article and putting it into your own words, but did you know there are tools out there that can do it for you, or at least claim to be able to?<\/p>\n
We wanted to see if these tools worked, and whether there was really a danger they could be as good at the task as a human writer, so we took one at random and entered this saying into it:<\/p>\n
\u201cA rolling stone gathers no moss.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It came back to us with:<\/p>\n
\u201cA drifter assembles no greenery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To give it some credit, it grasped the metaphorical meaning of \u201crolling stone\u201d and replaced it with \u201cdrifter\u201d, rather than converting the phrase into \u201crotating boulder\u201d or something similarly cumbersome.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s about as good as it gets, though. A stone can\u2019t \u201cassemble\u201d moss, as though it were on a flower arranging course, and \u201cgreenery\u201d is not a good synonym for \u201cmoss\u201d in this case. Moss grows on an item if it remains dormant for some time, whereas \u201cgreenery\u201d implies life and freshness, so really it has the opposite meaning.<\/p>\n