alt Hacker NewsAnd where would you put "billions of people now have access to better translations on demand"?
People talk about business as though only the owners of the business benefit. Everybody else pays the price. But aren't the main beneficiaries all the people using these services?
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Peritract • today at 10:51 AM
The translations aren't better though. Translations across a whole suite of services have got noticeably worse since the advent of AI.
This is explicitly not a benefit to the people using the services.
> billions of people now have access to better translations on deman
As a German speaker, I experience the quality of German language technical documentation steadily declining. 30 years ago, German documentation was usually top notch. With the first machine translations, quality went notably down. Now, with LLM translation, it's often garbage with phrases of obvious nonsense in it.
This is especially true with large companies like IBM, Microsoft or Oracle.
I guess the situation is better for languages where translations only became available with LLM.