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DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Is it even getting misused? Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating. As long as there is transparency so people can judge the results

Assumes the AI is accurate, which is debatable

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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Sure there are limitations. The point still stands: an imperfect machine translation is better than no translation, as long as people understand it is.

Can we afford to allow a high bad deprive people of knowledge just because of the language they speak?

The article complains about the affect on languages of poor machine translations, but the affect of no translations is worse. Yes those Greenlanders should be able to read all of Wikipedia without learning English and even if the project has no human translators

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- Euphoma@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Wikipedia already has a button where you can go to another language’s version of that page where you can then machine translate it yourself.
  
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  - AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I didn’t know that. I guess my “English privilege” is showing
    
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    chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Chauvinism is the term you’re seeking. And we all in the West suffer some degree of it.
    
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- DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Yes those Greenlanders should be able to read all of Wikipedia without learning English and even if the project has no human translators
  
  Again, your assuming a high level of accuracy from these tools. If LLM garbage leaves it unreadable, is that actually better?
  
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