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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] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The most annoying aspect of this is when you know actual information has to be out there, but it is being drowned out by dozens of sites reposting the less relevant and low quality information... And then you go to search in another language and you see substandard machine translations of all the garbage you were just fleeing, lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was trying to find the radius of the corner of the iPad Pro. Not the screen, the actual device. No matter what I modified my search term to all I could find was information about the screen corner (and how it isn't a true radius and blah blah blah) or AI generated bullshit.

Eventually I gave up and changed the way I was tackling my project. I know the info is out there, people make cases for these things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It's getting to the point where I have to use AI to help me sift through all the AI bullshit :(