Tech Dirt: “The latest generative AI tools are certainly impressive, but they bring with them a wide range of complex problems, as numerous posts on Techdirt attest. A new academic paper, published on arXiv, raises more of them, but from a new angle. Entitled “A Shocking Amount of the Web is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism”, it studies the impact of today’s low-cost AI translation tools on the online world:

We explore the effects that the long-term availability of low cost Machine Translation (MT) has had on the web. We show that content on the web is often translated into many languages, and the quality of these multi-way translations indicates they were primarily created using MT.”