The most interesting element of this is of course the upcoming arms race with itself.

Advances in both AI and neural NLP have exceeded Moore’s law in recent years. Even people in the knowledge of there being fake items often don’t manage to spot the fake reviews. Queue the fiasco that was Google Duplex’s demo - due to being too human - and the upcoming predictive sentences and it’s going to be very interesting.

Only one thing we are certain of: English will be further dumbed down. Just4U&M3

Awesome post, well researched and written. Excellent work.