Why is it stupid? Reddit is auto-translating using LLMs. That means any text from a non-English speaker has to be AI generated. Non-English speakers are incapable of submitting non-AI text to a forum in English that bans AI text. It’s literally impossible to ban AI text without banning AI-translated text.
Does reddit make it clear when a text is auto translated into another language or do they try to pass it off like it is the original comment that was posted by a native speaker?
It serves multiple stupid purposes. They’re trying to appeal to international users. But also by auto-translating they’ve been increasing reddit’s presence in search engines. That floods search engines with useless duplicate data. Am I the only one whose been seeing this? The same reddit posts in different languages will show up in search engines.
A lot of people don’t seem to have noticed they also have been injecting content from other threads as “related content” or whatever. Site indexers pick up junk data. Irrelevant posts have been getting falsely marked as relevant to a search query.
Reddit is a nuisance. It amazes me how people are so attached to the idea that it’s got content they can’t find anywhere else. Are people using the same internet I am? Reddit is a poisoned well. It’s nearly useless.
Doesn’t Reddit already translate posts and comments? What a stupid rule.
Why is it stupid? Reddit is auto-translating using LLMs. That means any text from a non-English speaker has to be AI generated. Non-English speakers are incapable of submitting non-AI text to a forum in English that bans AI text. It’s literally impossible to ban AI text without banning AI-translated text.
Does reddit make it clear when a text is auto translated into another language or do they try to pass it off like it is the original comment that was posted by a native speaker?
The latter.
That’s an insane way to do something lol
Things always get lost in translation. A reader should at least be able to see the original so they can consult a different translator if necessary
It serves multiple stupid purposes. They’re trying to appeal to international users. But also by auto-translating they’ve been increasing reddit’s presence in search engines. That floods search engines with useless duplicate data. Am I the only one whose been seeing this? The same reddit posts in different languages will show up in search engines.
A lot of people don’t seem to have noticed they also have been injecting content from other threads as “related content” or whatever. Site indexers pick up junk data. Irrelevant posts have been getting falsely marked as relevant to a search query.
Reddit is a nuisance. It amazes me how people are so attached to the idea that it’s got content they can’t find anywhere else. Are people using the same internet I am? Reddit is a poisoned well. It’s nearly useless.
It’s one of the only ‘Third Places’ available
touché.