A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine

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By Jules Roscoe

January 17, 2024

A “shocking” amount of the internet is machine-translated garbage, particularly in languages spoken in Africa and the Global South, a new study has found.

Researchers at the Amazon Web Services AI lab found that over half of the sentences on the web have been translated into two or more languages, often with increasingly worse quality due to poor machine translation (MT), which they said raised “serious concerns” about the training of large language models.

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