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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine (www.vice.com)
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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine::Researchers warn that most of the text we view online has been poorly translated into one or more languages—usually by a machine.

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[–] maness300 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Counterpoint: the Internet still exists as it did back then, but relatively smaller compared to what it's become.

You just need to find the right people and content to interact with, which is harder now because there's so much more garbage. I'd say they have grown in absolute numbers.

[–] grue 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I get what you're saying that '90s-style content is largely still there if you look for it, but this...

...which is harder now because there’s so much more garbage...

...has nevertheless destroyed the "Internet as it existed back then," which was specifically an Internet where finding such content was easy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can find a lot of old school websites hosted on neocities, though a lot of them are more of an art project than an actual website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

But all our tripod, angelfire, geocities etc websites were little art projects.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it harder? It was very hard to find anything on the old internet.

[–] jaybone 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. 2000s Google, I could search for a specific string in quotes (like an obscure error message trying to boot xbmc on an old xbox, or a kernel patch for a hackintosh) Now it’s all some SEO bullshit about how I need to watch some asshole’s 10 minute YouTube video about something tangentially related.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

i search for error messages all the time on ddg and it usually finds relevant results. it fails when errors are not sufficiently obscure, such as a common python error occurring in many code bases, permissions errors, vaguely-worded errors etc. But there is no way for the internet to guess context in such a situation. spam is not a problem.

if google is so bad stop using it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Just had to find the right webring /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

and there are websites like https://wiby.me/ that exist to assist people in finding the old-type content.