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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] 1 points 7 months ago

I recently was searching for some tips on overlanding routes. So many sites are just long strung together SEO word salad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

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

Still better than the Funimation localizations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, scientists, couldn't have known that without you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is value in verifying and quantifying opinion, even if your sure this opinion is true.

[–] Meowoem -5 points 7 months ago (7 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.

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