Fans learn they can't trust AI translations

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3 pointsDamonHD2 comments

More and more mainstream people finding out that ai gen is unreliable and simply not suited to domains requiring accuracy - perhaps the bubble can burst now?

For most people, alternative to the inappropriately literal translation is being unable to read it, not being 95% of the way.

20 years ago, in simpler times, people were sharing badly done human translations: https://archive.org/details/engrishtwotowerssubtitles

And just plain mistakes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm

I've also encountered a case of real paid humans translating the English word "drake", in a mythological context where it was obviously a dragon, as if it were used in the sense of "male duck".

Myself, I decided to not even attempt to learn Chinese after realising I'd struggle with saying "hello" rather than "mud trench": https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=“你好”%20%2F%...

Best experts can beat AI, but AI beats most non-experts. Jack of all trades, master of none.

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