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by nottorp 44 days ago
News sites are extremely cash strapped, I bet it's all automatic translation, maybe with the exception of a few important articles, and it has been even before LLMs.

On my local news sites I still see crap like english word order but Romanian words on filler articles, which means it wasn't even a LLM.
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jiggawatts 44 days ago
During the Ukraine war I saw many Russian or Ukrainian language articles or whatever translated with just Google Translate and it was a hopeless jumble of errors.

Even GPT 4 was massively better.

Some people just don’t understand how general purpose these chat bots are and insist on continuing to use single purpose tools that have been left in the dust.

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