Spinbot is an online tool designed to help terrible students plagiarise by taking already-written text and substitute synonyms to make one’s theft less obvious.
The downside is, as with all machine learning, it tends to spit out baffling nonsense. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a situation where editing a piece to make a lick of sense would be quicker than just writing your essay in the first place.
And while it’s a terrible way to write cogent articles, it’s unbelievably addictive as a place to enter classic text and see what Spinbot makes of it.
To that end, we asked ourselves “hey, would it be amusing to put song lyrics in?” And the answer is yes.
Yes, it would be.
“Stop, work together and tune in. Ice is back with a fresh out of the plastic new innovation.”
Vanilla Ice, ‘Ice Ice Baby’
“Recently the entirety of my inconveniences were so far away, now it looks just as they’re digging in for the long haul. Gracious, I have confidence in yesterday.”
The Beatles, ‘Yesterday’
“Never going to surrender you, never going to disappoint you, never going to circled and desert you. Never going to make you cry, never going to state farewell, never going to disclose to you deceives hurt you.”
Rick Astley, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’
Catchy!
“I’ll never think twice, I’m lightning on my feet. Furthermore, that is the thing that they don’t see mmm, that is the thing that they don’t see, mmm.
I’m moving without anyone else (moving individually), I’ll influence the moves to up as I go (climbs as I go).
What’s more, that is the thing that they don’t know mmm, that is the thing that they don’t know, mmm.”
Taylor Swift, ‘Shake It Off’
“There’s a woman who’s certain everything that sparkles is gold. Furthermore, she’s purchasing a stairway to paradise.
When she arrives she knows, whether the stores are altogether shut, with a word she can get what she desired.
Ooh, ooh, and she’s purchasing a stairway to paradise.”
Led Zeppelin, ‘Stairway To Heaven’
…and so on. And let’s be honest, nothing makes you appreciate the nuances of language like enjoying classics like Bryan Adams’ ‘Late Spring Of 69’, Adele’s ‘Coming In The Profound’ and Kanye West’s ‘The Majority of the Lights’. And, of course, ‘Infant Shark’.
And send us your best ones. We’ve got time to waste too.