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I noticed that Reddit behavior recently, but not the other things. I searched for "<productname> Nederland" hoping to find a Dutch source for something I can't
by theodric 10mo ago
I noticed that Reddit behavior recently, but not the other things. I searched for "<productname> Nederland" hoping to find a Dutch source for something I can't get in Ireland, and got a Reddit hit in Dutch that talked about paying €30 for it online with a response talking (also in Dutch) about the thing being $14 at Wal-Mart and Kroger-- neither of which exists in NL. I then noticed the text at the top of the page saying that the post had been auto-translated from English, at which point I got rather annoyed. That €30 in the translated post was $30 in the original: that's not localization at all, rather fabrication. Fucking infuriating.
My theory was that Reddit was shotgunning LLM-translated versions of posts at Google in a bunch of languages to increase hit rate. Maybe Google's really at fault.
Pretty soon it's going to be impossible to find anything on Google thanks to all the transparent autoensloppification of everything, everywhere.
- sippeangelo 10mo agoTo be clear, this is Reddit auto-translating and poisoning their own search results, and it's the most frustrating thing. Post AI and post Google enshittification, we all ended up appending "reddit" to the end of our searches to filter out all the blogspam and get some real human opinions on queries, so Reddit decides to cash in and make sure they receive the maximum amount of that traffic by making it available in every language under the sun, poisoning their own well deliberately. It's shit turtles all the way down!