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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine (www.vice.com)
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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.

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[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

AI is going to fuck up everything we’ve ever done.

[–] stewsters@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We fucked it up on our own with SEO long before chatgpt came along. Google has been going downhill for years as people learn to game the algorithm.

It will speed it along sure, but the core problem is that is profitable to dump garbage on the internet and put ads on it. The monitozation is the root of this.