Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

G/O Media, the owner of Gizmodo, has replaced the human staff of its Spanish-language site, Gizmodo en Español, with an AI-powered translation tool. The AI tool has been criticized for making several errors, including incomplete translations, formatting issues, and improper placement of in-text links.

Despite previous backlash for using AI-generated content on its flagship sites, G/O Media has continued to use AI tools, seemingly without addressing the foundational issues. The company has not responded to requests for comment on the matter, and it appears there is a lack of human oversight in their new automated system.

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G/O Media, the owner of Gizmodo, has replaced the human staff of Gizmodo en Español with an AI-powered translation tool.
The AI tool has been making glaring mistakes in translation, formatting, and punctuation, and even included HTML code in the text.
Despite these errors, there appears to be little to no human oversight of the AI-generated content.
This is not G/O Media's first attempt at AI-generated content, with previous efforts also resulting in poor quality and grammatical errors.

Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

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