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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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm bilingual and this absolutely baffles me. AI translation is not at the level of a human translator at all. It's inept at deducing context or at handling slang, regionalisms, or ambiguity.

I do translations routinely and I tried AI tools. It's such garbage for anything except basic stuff that I prefer to start from scratch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s good enough to provide pulp for a clickbait headline and sell ads.