Wikipedia editors introduced new restrictions on contributors after discovering that AI-assisted translations were introducing factual errors and fabricated citations into articles

https://feddit.org/post/26714600

Wikipedia editors introduced new restrictions on contributors after discovering that AI-assisted translations were introducing factual errors and fabricated citations into articles - feddit.org

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/43905111 [https://lemmy.world/post/43905111]

AI is literally ruining everything for absolutely no reason.

No one asked for this shit.

No one asked for an easier way to translate articles into other languages? I’d imagine that’s something a lot of us would like. Tbf, I’m bilingual tho

No one asked for brain dead AI to fuck it up. Language doesn’t translate word for word. Phrases don’t translate natively. But AI will still just translate word for word instead of structures of phrases.

I asked my gf who is Croatian (I’m Canadian) what “Fuck this Shit” translates into, and she gave me three examples, one of which translates to “Send it all to a dick”.

You seem bitter ah. lol. Do you get this angry when people use Google translate as well?
Did you miss that this is the fuck_ai Lemmy? Brain rot is fucking real.

Fair enough. lol. No questions aloud. Got it. Nice community y’all fostering here

I was just saying this doesn’t seem like a malicious thing. More like fallout. Like hating the dairy industry because someone spilled milk

No, it would be like hating the dairy industry because the industry forces us to drink half rotten milk all day telling us it’s better than it was before.