We really, really need to put the brakes on government using AI/algorithms to make decisions as a cost saving measure. You cannot ask Google Translate to decide what kind of person someone is. https://www.propublica.org/article/google-says-google-translate-cant-replace-human-translators-immigration-officials-have-used-it-to-vet-refugees …
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Replying to @0xabad1dea @11rcombs
I mean I just used it on a DM (*I* wrote - I use it to sanity check my Japanese) and it completely ate an entire phrase. Who the hell thinks it's even remotely suitable for vetting people?
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It likes to do that a lot lately (not like the way it handled Japanese was perfect in the first place)pic.twitter.com/0d2TrN4abr
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At least it seems they fixed the thing where autosuggest for just about *any* trivial but of Japanese brought up lines from hentai. Seriously. That was going on for weeks.
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