▲ 577 ▼ A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine (www.vice.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 88 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Linssiili@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) The posts are from march 2023, and there are no ads yet :/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* Dates could be made up, too.The blog posts that I generated for my site included made up dates in the past. The internet archive says it has a snapshot for March of 2023, but when I click it, it says it doesn't, so I have no way of verifying. The theory about parking real estate hoping to sell it also seems pretty plausible to me. Who knows what dumb shit they're up to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* Dates could be made up, too.The blog posts that I generated for my site included made up dates in the past. The internet archive says it has a snapshot for March of 2023, but when I click it, it says it doesn't, so I have no way of verifying. The theory about parking real estate hoping to sell it also seems pretty plausible to me. Who knows what dumb shit they're up to. permalink fedilink source parent