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pmarrecktoday at 3:03 PM1 replyview on HN

One side effect of extremely-accessible, high-quality English translation and, more importantly, English-grammar-and-idiosyncrasy-obeying AI, is that there will be more and more text that looks like this which comes from foreign, non-native-English countries.

Just FYI.

This will be especially true from non-English cultures where "avoiding shame" is high on the list of motivations.

Consider the upside, though: A much broader range of written perspectives written in high-quality, if slightly annoying, English.

I'm already seeing the benefit of this on X thanks to its autotranslation btw: I follow a few Chinese-language accounts now that I would have never been able to digest otherwise.


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wbltoday at 3:22 PM

Its only high quality of this their thoughts. Autotranslation is different from choosing to have AI shape the expression permanently.