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by jhugo 1445 days ago
Yeah, I really hope they don't do this. I live in a country where I don't speak the language well, so I am using Google Translate and DeepL [0] all day every day. The quality of translations of real-world text is so incredibly variable. There is literally no way to know when it will suddenly reverse the meaning of a sentence, or produce something that sounds like it makes sense, but in terms of meaning bears no relation to the input at all.

A machine-translated Wikipedia would not be a trustworthy source of information at all, yet would look like one. I think that does significantly more harm than good.

[0] Suggestions for better alternatives welcomed.