Reddit added auto-translation to their client, so non-English speakers are deliberately misled by the UX into thinking the thread originated in their native language.
Of course, this led to a self-imposed Tower of Babel situation where naive users are regularly unknowingly talking to people in their native tongue where no one else speaks it.
People reading and responding to AI generated text and both not knowing due to auto translation. Great…
Specific non english subs are probably the best place to avoid accidentally reading LLM comments with it being less likely to encounter other language users.
I’m still on old reddit which doesn’t have this feature so instead I get to see random non-english posts interspersed in a conversation and get confused before I remember there’s an auto-translate feature on the site now
Multiple times, in the US, I’ve clicked on a Google link to a reddit thread and it loads in like Turkish or something. Usually it just takes a refresh of the page to get back to english, but it’s still weird that it’s happened to me multiple times.
Not on my built-in Google app. I do use a VPN on Opera, and Ecosia has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well too, but I don’t do anything fancy to my Google other than YouTube Revanced.
Yea absolutely, some of these automatic translated threads seemed easy to spot IMO with something about the writing being just a little off or unnatural.
I had some situations where I was not 100% sure myself.
Not to mention people that are unaware this is even a thing, could easily be fooled. Any platform that does this should really be stating that content is being automatically translated for them.
Reddit added auto-translation to their client, so non-English speakers are deliberately misled by the UX into thinking the thread originated in their native language.
Of course, this led to a self-imposed Tower of Babel situation where naive users are regularly unknowingly talking to people in their native tongue where no one else speaks it.
Blame the admins, not the mods.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1dfnsub/how_do_i_stop_the_automatic_translation_of_all/
People reading and responding to AI generated text and both not knowing due to auto translation. Great…
Specific non english subs are probably the best place to avoid accidentally reading LLM comments with it being less likely to encounter other language users.
Huh, talk about a feature that’s so close to great. With a little “automatically translated from language by Reddit” that sounds awesome.
I’m still on old reddit which doesn’t have this feature so instead I get to see random non-english posts interspersed in a conversation and get confused before I remember there’s an auto-translate feature on the site now
Oh! That’s what’s going on. I thought people were just writing non sequitur alt-language posts
Multiple times, in the US, I’ve clicked on a Google link to a reddit thread and it loads in like Turkish or something. Usually it just takes a refresh of the page to get back to english, but it’s still weird that it’s happened to me multiple times.
Using a VPN? Usually that my reason
Not on my built-in Google app. I do use a VPN on Opera, and Ecosia has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well too, but I don’t do anything fancy to my Google other than YouTube Revanced.
Yea absolutely, some of these automatic translated threads seemed easy to spot IMO with something about the writing being just a little off or unnatural.
I had some situations where I was not 100% sure myself.
Not to mention people that are unaware this is even a thing, could easily be fooled. Any platform that does this should really be stating that content is being automatically translated for them.