What Google Translate Gets Wrong
In a bizarre turn of events that had New Yorkers scratching their heads, it seemed as if Mayor Eric Adams had taken on a surprising partnership with the From website localization to certified interpreting, INGCO’s Wordologists™ provide equal access to information. Our lips haven't been sealed since 2006. 💋
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
OpenAI’s chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.
Wikipedia:LLM-assisted translation
This guideline applies to machine translation tools that include a large language model ("LLM"). Assume that it applies to any online translation tool unless you have confirmed there is no LLM element.
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models
Text generated by large language models (LLMs)[a] often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies. For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited,[b] save for these two exceptions:
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
OKA - Wiki pages tracker (oka.wiki/tracker)
Category:Articles translated by an OKA editor
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 5,177 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
OKA – Disseminating free content on Wikipedia and open platforms through targeted funding
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. We do so by providing monthly stipends to full-time contributors and translators. We leverage AI (Large Language Models) to automate most of the work.
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
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Both AI and non-AI. To clarify my position, I don’t trust machine translation (based on Japanese-to-English and vice versa, but especially the former) and believe it should be reserved for personal use only and definitely not anything public-facing by a company/government/etc. that should have the budget to hire a translator.