Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It seems crazy to me for journalists to trust machine/AI translated articles enough to use as a source in their own articles.
I’ve always seen them as things to treat as unreliable, but something to use when there’s no other options available and to get a gist of what it might be about.
If using them as citation I’d need a native speaker to confirm content before being confident enough to include it if I were a journalist.
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 days ago
There’s another alternative: not reporting it as fact, butbeing open about the degree of certainty and the methodology.
“Someone says”, “rumor”, and “uncertain automated translation” don’t make for very convincing sources or journalistic credibility, of course. But being open about context does moreso than hiding it.