> reaching peak brightness and fading again in a matter of days, unlike supernovae which take weeks or months to dim.
This phrase appears in the article four times. It is not the only phrase repeated multiple time. This is not the first article doing that, I see it regularly: you read the abstract and then 2-3 repetitions of the abstract with minor modifications adding exactly zero new information. It seems to me as a trend in the article writing to repeat something multiple times, with an average number of repetitions growing from year to year.
It forces me to skim article instead of reading it thoroughly to seek something I didn't read yet.
I wonder what makes writers to do it? Is it like in a school when you need to write a text with a specific lower bound for a word count?
AI likes to repeat phrases verbatim, just saying. Though the Occam razor tells me there might be SEO considerations that get proposed by plugins like Yoast SEO (key focus phrases and so on). Someone might have blindly accepted them.
It's most likely SEO mysticism. Like those awful blogspam articles: "This blog will tell you how to set up your WiFi router. Setting up your WiFi router can be easy, but only if you have a guide helping you to set up your WiFi router. The first step towards setting up your WiFi router is to turn the router on. You've just taken the first step towards setting up your WiFi router. The second step towards setting up your WiFi router is..."
Guess which article now shows up towards the top of search results for "set up a WiFi router"?
“When I was a young lad growing up in the English countryside, my mother’s Homemade Apple Brown Betty was a constant salve to life’s many scrapes and scuffs - both emotional and physical. I remember the day my uncle passed, and her Homemade Apple Brown Betty was the glue that held us together. It’s quite a simple recipe, the Homemade Apple Brown Betty, so simple in fact that five pages of life story
Follow the directions for our Homemade Brown Betty (recipe link), substituting apple cinnamon for plain cinnamon.”
This phrase appears in the article four times. It is not the only phrase repeated multiple time. This is not the first article doing that, I see it regularly: you read the abstract and then 2-3 repetitions of the abstract with minor modifications adding exactly zero new information. It seems to me as a trend in the article writing to repeat something multiple times, with an average number of repetitions growing from year to year.
It forces me to skim article instead of reading it thoroughly to seek something I didn't read yet.
I wonder what makes writers to do it? Is it like in a school when you need to write a text with a specific lower bound for a word count?