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Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) (www.quippd.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your source is a blog with a stupid anecdote from Japan as its main feature. Why should I take that seriously?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why did Mozilla staff take it seriously enough to immediately offer to get on a call with the writer of the stupid anecdote?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because Mozilla isn't the scumbag company the blog tries to paint them as.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So we should take it seriously.

Thanks for clarifying!

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I hear yoasif is always trying to fuck the neighbor's dog."

"No, that's stupid, of course I'm not."

"Oh so you're acknowledging it? Guess that means we should take the claim seriously!"

🙄

Ngl, I haven't read the article, I'm not defending or talking about Mozilla. But holy shit was that stupid logic.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io -4 points 3 weeks ago

The reason it works is because Mozilla staff isn't going to offer to call any random person with a "stupid anecdote".

EDIT: FWIW, your logic is broken: while your imagined yoasif denies the claim, that differs from what Baffalox does in reality - they say "yes, but". Imagined yoasif just said "no."

Wouldn't have been critical of the form of your logic, but I mean -- you said my logic was stupid. I'm not sure you understood my logic.