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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    10 months ago

    But free is free so 🤷

    The free ones suck but some of the paid ones are pretty good.

    I was recently tasked with translating an auto-biography a 90 year old relative wrote, and the results were really good. I don’t speak their language very well, and they don’t speak mine very well either. I was quoted $10,000 by a professional human translation service.

    OpenAI, for comparison, would charge about five bucks with their most expensive model. And the results are a lot better than a free translation. Is it better than a human? No - but it’s pretty close.