Falcon ,

Translation is very different from generation.

As a matter of fact, even AI generation has different grades of quality.

SEO garbage is certainly not the same as an article with AI generated components and very different from a translated article.

Jayu ,

The most annoying aspect of this is when you know actual information has to be out there, but it is being drowned out by dozens of sites reposting the less relevant and low quality information... And then you go to search in another language and you see substandard machine translations of all the garbage you were just fleeing, lol.

Misconduct ,

It's getting to the point where I have to use AI to help me sift through all the AI bullshit :(

TheRealKuni ,

I was trying to find the radius of the corner of the iPad Pro. Not the screen, the actual device. No matter what I modified my search term to all I could find was information about the screen corner (and how it isn't a true radius and blah blah blah) or AI generated bullshit.

Eventually I gave up and changed the way I was tackling my project. I know the info is out there, people make cases for these things.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Turing tests solving turing tests solving turing tests

Linssiili ,

Recently I was looking for info (in finnish) how to prevent car windows from fogging. I found a really weird website all about car windows, but it kept confusing car and house windows. It instructed to clean car windows by "opening the window and cleaning between the panels".

It was obviously ai-generated, but I couldn't figure out why. They weren't selling anything, there were no ads and no links to other websites or services.

Edit: I found the site again, I cannot spot anything nefarious, but proceed with caution: https://www.lasinvaihto.fi/

jdf038 ,

Perhaps parking a site for traffic and then using the enshitified data to sell it?

It makes me sick how dumb it sounds.

theluddite ,

It's probably either waiting for approval to sell ads or was denied and they're adding more stuff. Google has a virtual monopoly on ads, and their approval process can take 1-2 weeks. Google's content policy basially demands that your site by full of generated trash to sell ads. I did a case study here, in which Google denied my popular and useful website for ads until I filled it with the lowest-quality generated trash imaginable. That might help clarify what's up.

Linssiili ,

The posts are from march 2023, and there are no ads yet :/

theluddite ,

Dates could be made up, too.The blog posts that I generated for my site included made up dates in the past. The internet archive says it has a snapshot for March of 2023, but when I click it, it says it doesn't, so I have no way of verifying. The theory about parking real estate hoping to sell it also seems pretty plausible to me. Who knows what dumb shit they're up to.

Lemminary ,

Instead of feeling defeated, like every other millennial that doesn't want to work,

That is one weird glib to throw in there.

theluddite ,

My editor is an actual saint. Imagine all the shit that she has to put up with that gets cut if that made it through!

aubertlone ,

Hey man! I've read this article a few times, perhaps from other comments on Lemmy!

Thanks for the write-up. I'm a programmer myself.

Stuck in operations in my new job until we're done with the data center exit/ migration. Anyway cool beans, and very interesting article. Will keep all this in mind if any of my hobby projects take off.

crazyCat ,

People who care about SEO for their window-related businesses will pay the blog to link to them from there.

Tetractys ,

Good bot.

Meowoem ,

This is basic math, articles are written in one language but there are lots of languages they can be translated into so if a site written in English has a Spanish, french, and Portuguese version 75% of that counts as ai translated garbage - because apparently having stuff available to non English speakers is a bad thing now?

As for 'poorly' What's their mechanism for determinng it? How much is well translated or are they just assuming it's poor because it's possible it could be? Likewise what percentage is human translated and how do they determine that? Or is it another assumption to fit their narrative?

Clickbait doomer nonsence.

DadVolante ,
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People who actually read the article don't need to ask questions that were answered in the cited source.

Anyway....

Meowoem ,

So it is just over extrapolated junk that doesn't add anything to anything, good to know.

DadVolante ,
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https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/803e8330-d9b8-4198-923f-6bd8571c49b4.webp

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

The whole webring idea needs to come back. Human curated recommendations of good resources and pages. So long as these pages remain in the control of humans and dedicated to curation and are decentralised, unlike the search engines, then they’ll be reliable.

Plugging in some social and community organisation, perhaps like a wiki, and you could get even more out of it.

Euphoma ,

There are modern webrings. Dang the yesterweb webring shut down, that was a really good one.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT ,

Got any other reccos? I'm brand new to the concept

rottingleaf ,

Is this really 2024? I felt myself in 2004 for a moment.

SkyNTP ,

If only. 2004 was better.

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

I agree. If I could go back to the 1980s, I would.

Unforeseen ,
@Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works avatar

1984, specifically

rottingleaf ,

1983 to see "Wargames" in theater?

parpol ,

Still better than the Funimation localizations.

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