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 (DIR) Post #Av3dcHffTpzTNUm4qO by julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-06-12T13:12:59Z
       
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       Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.Please don't do this.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av3dcPc3x7rO0d9JKq by julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-06-12T13:35:29Z
       
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       Let me share an example I saw recently that turns out to say the exact opposite of what it means.Here I was presented with the english translated message and was confused why they would say this, and had to check the french original to understand what they meant.It'll probably only make sense to french speakers but I tried to convey the meaning in the alt text.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av3dcPgJhJGMDp8hxw by julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-06-12T13:16:36Z
       
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       I wonder if there's a website out there like the Engrish one that mocked bad japanese t-shirts, where we could publicly shame websites that feel it's okay to publish terrible translations.It's got really bad recently, it's a daily occurrence at this point to read horrible AI-translated content and makes the website look really unprofessional.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av3dcPqb55UCjhwuzQ by julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-06-12T13:50:00Z
       
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       Let's name and shame: Kotaku has been auto-translating their articles and presenting me with a garbage french version instead of the original.Here's two screenshots from just a single article. Unprofessional and unreadable. And when it's not plain wrong, it often just sounds awkward and dull.This shit is all over the place now and being forced upon us on all sides.Feel free to share what you find too, if you're like me every day is a cringe-fest recently.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av3dcXEbcDqleCEgsq by julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-06-12T14:11:38Z
       
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       On the bright side, this made me reflect on the fact that in french "À revoir" can mean two opposite things, which I never really considered 😂It's true that in some other context it could mean "Worth seeing again", but that's just why you need human translators to get accurate results and auto-translated content is often worse than no translation at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av4El3DqGaM9TZnpC4 by StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org
       2025-06-12T13:19:30Z
       
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       @julienbarnoin The only thing LLMs have gotten better at in the past couple of years is at tricking people into thinking it's useful now.