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by LtWorf 1445 days ago
Facebook translations are horrifying for the mainstream languages already. They go from completely wrong to kinda understandable but still wrong.
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Looks like they're investing to get better. The model is also available and they called for contributions to improve it.
Why would I help them? If it was public data sure.
Look, I fucking hate Facebook to the point that I can't really be objective about their research. Whenever I see a section on ethical implications or impacts I just think about shit like Myanmar or the insurrection and laugh (cry).

But this is a shallow dismissal that doesn't add anything valuable to the discussion.

"Oh they made their _terrible_ (probably state of the art) machine translation _better_??! Those monsters!!"