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Ask HN: Am I the only one annoyed by the Auto-Translated Reddit?

4 points by ldng ↗ HN
Lately, every time I go to Reddit the page has clearly been auto-translated to the local language. Is anyone else seeing this. This is VERY annoying as the translation is really BAD and even sips into code excerpts ... And of course, no disclaimer telling it's a translation and no way of disabling it. If its meant to be transparent ... it's doing a terrible job.

Just wondering if I'm in a test group or something, or if other non-english natives speaker are seeing this AI-stupidity.

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nullindividual
If a sentence starts with "Am I the only one...", the answer is always 'no'.

Haven't seen that, but reddit overall has become a shockingly bad, lowest common denominator platform (lots of those "Am I the only one..." questions, oh god).

Probably an A/B test. I checked /r/de and I don't see any auto-translation.

ggm
Because it asks a question it's a subset of Betteridge, but it's a specific one, distinct from AITA (for instance)

I do sometimes feel like a singleton in my space, e.g. believing in geographic addressing models in large address spaces like ipv6, where the closest to agreement I can get is "yes, but we don't do that" which at least acknowledges a theoretical position we could.

Somebody, possibly Richard Dawkins points out in populations measured in hundreds of millions a one in a million chance comes up a couple of hundred times..