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   Julien Barnoin (julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:00:59 JST Julien Barnoin

   Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.

   As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?

   Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.

   Please don't do this.

   • Rich Felker and Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     Julien Barnoin (julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:43:18 JST Julien Barnoin

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     I wonder if there's a website out there like the Engrish one that mocked bad japanese t-shirts, where we could publicly shame websites that feel it's okay to publish terrible translations.

     It's got really bad recently, it's a daily occurrence at this point to read horrible AI-translated content and makes the website look really unprofessional.

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     ꓤɔᴉʇɐʇS (staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:44:31 JST ꓤɔᴉʇɐʇS

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     @julienbarnoin The only thing LLMs have gotten better at in the past couple of years is at tricking people into thinking it's useful now.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:45:03 JST Rich Felker

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     • ꓤɔᴉʇɐʇS

     @StaticR @julienbarnoin Because that's exactly the thing they're designed and optimized to do. Quite literally.