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Journalistic integrity in this day and age? Hasn't that been outlawed yet?
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Good response. Love it when peeps own up to their mistskes.
I thought this was a very well written, transparent article that took accountability as seriously as it should. I am still not sure why people are using AI for translation when translation software already existed. People mention that AI is more context aware, but I feel like when you saw those friction points in old translation software it prompted you to look further into the context, whereas AI will just make an executive decision and people feel like it must be right because it's AI. I guess it's possible old language software, or even a translator, would have done the same thing, but I still think people would have less inherent trust in the old software alone. I do want to point out that this AI issue was just a small part of the problem and they addressed plenty of other issues and how they plan to remedy those.
This wasn’t even an AI issue nor even a translation issue. They published an article that lacked sources, and still wasn’t good enough once sources were added.
Yea, I mentioned in my comment that there was a confluence of issues, but the article does point out that the AI translation made the statement more definitive.
Edit to add:
As part of our post-mortem on this article’s evolution, PCWelt’s executive editor pointed out that the translation makes the article sound more definitive than its native German. He says that in the context of the article, the German word “soll” signals a rumored expectation, but the English translation used “will” instead of something more akin to “is rumored to.”
Translation is what the transformer architecture was designed for. It is the state of the art, and translation software has been using ML for a long long time.
This feels like an appropriate use of AI, but failure of editing.
Not with general purpose LLMs. They start off ok, but become much more interested in continuing the text they've already translated, rather than looking back to what it is they're meant to translate. So they drift off course as the translation gets longer.
I am still not sure why people are using AI for translation when translation software already existed.
Pre-existing software was also never terribly accurate.
AI is now the dog you blame for your flatulence.
Next time I shit in my bosses coffee I'll blame AI. After all he required me to use it more.
Me: "Should I shit in my boss's coffee?"
ChatGPT: "This is probably not a good idea. Most people do not like shit in their coffee."
Me: "I really think my boss would like it."
ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right. You should definitely shit in your boss's coffee. He's sure to appreciate it."
(And then, when your boss is mildly irritated, show him this conversation.)
“AI made me do it.”
Admitting their mistakes makes me want to read their articles more. If only Microsoft could bring themselves to do the same.