Originally published at: Gizmodo fires Spanish site editors and replaces site with broken AI translation of English one | Boing Boing
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…what it’s like to read english translated gibberish instructions for some gadget that came from China.
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Here’s presuming/hoping this “broken AI” included specific training on hovercraft and their status of being full of eels.
(for every LLM there shall be a monoid in the category of hovercraft endofunctors containing eels)
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Seguramente esto terminará bien
It would be very interesting to know the relative influence of overconfidence in the tool, belief that readers aren’t especially sensitive to quality; and the differing value of ad impressions against speakers of various languages.
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Perhaps they will organise bots to read the articles and click on the adverts
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Even if it was a good (or at least sufficient) translation, it still would just be a translation of Anglophone culture content, which is not exactly a replacement for a Spanish language site with its own content. (I mean, hell, Gizmodo sites like Kotaku has/had US, UK and Australian versions.) But since it is, instead, a sucky machine-translated site, there’s no reason for it to exist - people can go to the English version and get it machine translated themselves (with more control over the process). I can’t imagine they’ll get enough traffic to this new endeavor (once all the former users get wise to what’s happened) to make it worthwhile to keep it.
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Due to the nuances of machine translation, there can be slight differences.
I wouldn’t call a machine translation “nuanced.”
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As a translator, I love watching machine translation crash and burn.
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yeah, that’s exactly what rob was talking about. this is the wire article he linked
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gift link.
I doubt Garcia-Marquez would say the same of an AI.
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Splinter is laughing (in Spanish) from the internet graveyard.
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