Folks, don’t auto translate articles into languages you don’t actually speak.
It does more harm than good!
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/
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Folks, don’t auto translate articles into languages you don’t actually speak.
It does more harm than good!
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/
@django "This is beginning to cause a wicked problem. AI systems, from Google Translate to ChatGPT, learn to “speak” new languages by scraping huge quantities of text from the internet. Wikipedia is sometimes the largest source of online linguistic data for languages with few speakers—so any errors on those pages, grammatical or otherwise, can poison the wells that AI is expected to draw from."
This is btw true for ALL the internet and all "ai" generated content, incl. english language.
@django the only case it would be acceptable, it's the auto translate but not publish it and set it in "need translation verification" so the people that talk the language can correct error.
Reduce the work of translator AND maintain the quality
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