AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    We wouldn’t say a human translator who did this was hallucinating.

    AI translations are wrong. The product is defective.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    1·
    13 days ago

    And then they’ll train me models on the hallucinated content, causing even more hallucinations

  • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I think it’s that thing where they do it on purpose so someone corrects it for free and then they steal it.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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      13 days ago

      What do you mean steal it? The article makes it clear that the errors are likely the result of AI hallucinations that arose during translation and that accounts that have submitted multiple articles with these errors will be subject to additional review or banning from this program. It seems likely that underpaid people using AI to translate things aren’t paying as much attention to the output as Wikipedia expects.