“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
arstechnica.com
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.

  • 1bluepixel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • LifeInOregon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • LifeInOregon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        If the quality of what is output by automation is crap, then, yes. And in this case, the quality is crap. Ergo…

          • LifeInOregon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’m not talking about general LLM and translation. I’m speaking specifically about the garbage Gizmodo is pumping out with AI generated articles lacking factual credibility and translation being of poor quality. It doesn’t mean I’m a Luddite. It means I’m criticizing Gizmodo using poor quality tools to replace human beings who were doing the job well.