Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
Gizmodo is and has been the worst for a long time. In fact, that entire network of sites has been a rats nest of garbage for years. Unsurprising that they’d go this route.
I’ve dropped them from my newsfeed. If they’re just going to be writing AI summaries of what other sites have already published, and getting the facts wrong as a result, you’re literally better off reading nothing rather than read their articles, and trying to read them just encourages them because they’re still getting ad revenue.
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If the quality of what is output by automation is crap, then, yes. And in this case, the quality is crap. Ergo…
Have you tried using large language model translators? They work great, much better than old translation software. I’ve tried translating between two languages I know and it comes across very natural. Even human translators often make mistakes, so that alone isn’t a reason to switch back to manual translations.
Luddites also tried to say that new weaving machines produced inferior goods, and yet we know they luddites were wrong. Mass produced goods with textile machines is the only way clothing can be as affordable as it is.
It also sounds like the arguments against driverless cars, they make mistakes sometimes. Sure, but less often than their human competition.
I’ve no idea why this thread is so jumbled. Did comments get removed/moved?