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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine::Researchers warn that most of the text we view online has been poorly translated into one or more languages—usually by a machine.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

I get what you're saying that '90s-style content is largely still there if you look for it, but this...

...which is harder now because there’s so much more garbage...

...has nevertheless destroyed the "Internet as it existed back then," which was specifically an Internet where finding such content was easy.

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

You can find a lot of old school websites hosted on neocities, though a lot of them are more of an art project than an actual website.

[-] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

But all our tripod, angelfire, geocities etc websites were little art projects.

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