thewayne | "AI took my job, literally" - Gizmodo fires Spanish-speaking staff

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They decided that an AI translator could replace the Spanish-speaking staff to translate articles.

It didn't work too well.

The translator program repeatedly failed partway through the articles, reverting to English. Also, the translators wrote tech articles of interest to the Spanish community, which the AI could not do.

A terrible loss all around.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-took-my-job-literally-gizmodo-fires-spanish-staff-amid-switch-to-ai-translator/

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kathmandu

I don't even trust machine translation of cooking recipes.

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thewayne

I've never translated a recipe from a foreign language, I have converted metric to english manually, that hasn't been a problem for me.

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rain_gryphon

It's probably too early to rely on machine translation without a human backstop, but it's coming fast. A few years at most. Perhaps much quicker.

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thewayne

Yep. They are growing by leaps and bounds.

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silveradept

Not only is this a foolish decision to trust whatever a machine outputs, this shows significant contempt for the users who speak and read those languages, determining they're no more important to anyone than whatever garbage a machine translator will spit out for them.