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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine (www.vice.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

AI is going to fuck up everything we’ve ever done.

[–] stewsters 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We fucked it up on our own with SEO long before chatgpt came along. Google has been going downhill for years as people learn to game the algorithm.

It will speed it along sure, but the core problem is that is profitable to dump garbage on the internet and put ads on it. The monitozation is the root of this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Is this really 2024? I felt myself in 2004 for a moment.

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

This is basic math, articles are written in one language but there are lots of languages they can be translated into so if a site written in English has a Spanish, french, and Portuguese version 75% of that counts as ai translated garbage - because apparently having stuff available to non English speakers is a bad thing now?

As for 'poorly' What's their mechanism for determinng it? How much is well translated or are they just assuming it's poor because it's possible it could be? Likewise what percentage is human translated and how do they determine that? Or is it another assumption to fit their narrative?

Clickbait doomer nonsence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

People who actually read the article don't need to ask questions that were answered in the cited source.

Anyway....

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

So it is just over extrapolated junk that doesn't add anything to anything, good to know.

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

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