this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
542 points (98.0% liked)

Technology

74055 readers
4677 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
542
A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine (www.vice.com)
submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
75 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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Linssiili@sopuli.xyz 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Recently I was looking for info (in finnish) how to prevent car windows from fogging. I found a really weird website all about car windows, but it kept confusing car and house windows. It instructed to clean car windows by "opening the window and cleaning between the panels".

It was obviously ai-generated, but I couldn't figure out why. They weren't selling anything, there were no ads and no links to other websites or services.

Edit: I found the site again, I cannot spot anything nefarious, but proceed with caution: https://www.lasinvaihto.fi/

[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It's probably either waiting for approval to sell ads or was denied and they're adding more stuff. Google has a virtual monopoly on ads, and their approval process can take 1-2 weeks. Google's content policy basially demands that your site by full of generated trash to sell ads. I did a case study here, in which Google denied my popular and useful website for ads until I filled it with the lowest-quality generated trash imaginable. That might help clarify what's up.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Instead of feeling defeated, like every other millennial that doesn't want to work,

That is one weird glib to throw in there.

[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

My editor is an actual saint. Imagine all the shit that she has to put up with that gets cut if that made it through!

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)