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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by thezipcreator on Thursday March 12, 2026 @01:10AM (#47346742)
We've had machine translation for a while and I don't think anybody particularly thinks of it as a bad thing? Writing something and then having a machine directly translate it (possibly imperfectly) is a lot different than a machine writing the thing.

Personally I would like people to try learning other languages more (it's hard but rewarding) but you can't learn every language ever, and it is really hard to learn a language to fluency.

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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by lifthrasiir on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:48AM (#47348060)
> We've had machine translation for a while and I don't think anybody particularly thinks of it as a bad thing?

Not all, but some machine translators can be comically (if not horrifically) bad sometimes. Search Twitter-become-X for examples. Native writers can't pick a working machine translator unless they are explicitly allowed to do so themselves.

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