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I'm somehow both appalled, surprised, and unsurprised at the same time. Tech companies have a weird habit of jumping into language markets they don't actually h
by kmeisthax 5y ago
I'm somehow both appalled, surprised, and unsurprised at the same time. Tech companies have a weird habit of jumping into language markets they don't actually have the staffing to properly serve. However, I never expected to see Google just outright machine-translating titles to do compliance checks on.
> After 4 full days of trying to teach Google staff how a dictionary worked
Google's moderation policy is to treat any sort of complicated business situation as some kind of DDOS attack, as if you e-mailed your appeal buried deep within a ZIP bomb. They have strict computation quotas on wetware.