RIP Non-english speakers lol

You guys still on Reddit ? 😂😂😂

"a revolt" as if there when weren't a million alternative communities on Reddit and Fedi already.

“If you don’t speak English, you need to find a different community,” the post reads. “We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don’t speak English, you can’t even verify yourself if it translated correctly.”

There’s power-tripping, then there’s stupid.

c'est la vie

People power-trip while stupid all the time. Actually, it's usually more of a prerequisite I think.

SPEAK ENGLISH IS THIS AI?!

SPRICH

que sera sera

DEUTSCH

DU

To be fair, these days Reddit is overrun with clearly AI generated content. The Linux subreddit is seeing slop posts about multiple new vibecoded projects every day. So, I don't envy anyone trying to moderate and preserve real communities over there.

Edit: For example, I just checked and saw this https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1xfgctx/i_built_my_own_kernel_on_top_of_linus_claude_code 🙄 At least they were honest about their slop, because most others are not...

Reddit is unusable and overflowing with slop.

Another baby step in the relentless march towards idiocracy.

Meinen sie Kesslervieh?

HURENSOHN!

Reddit added auto-translation to their client, so non-English speakers are deliberately misled by the UX into thinking the thread originated in their native language.

Of course, this led to a self-imposed Tower of Babel situation where naive users are regularly unknowingly talking to people in their native tongue where no one else speaks it.

Blame the admins, not the mods.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1dfnsub/how_do_i_stop_the_automatic_translation_of_all/

https://archive.ph/YCtjX

Yea absolutely, some of these automatic translated threads seemed easy to spot IMO with something about the writing being just a little off or unnatural.

I had some situations where I was not 100% sure myself.

Not to mention people that are unaware this is even a thing, could easily be fooled. Any platform that does this should really be stating that content is being automatically translated for them.

I'm still on old reddit which doesn't have this feature so instead I get to see random non-english posts interspersed in a conversation and get confused before I remember there's an auto-translate feature on the site now

Doesn’t Reddit already translate posts and comments? What a stupid rule.

Multiple times, in the US, I've clicked on a Google link to a reddit thread and it loads in like Turkish or something. Usually it just takes a refresh of the page to get back to english, but it's still weird that it's happened to me multiple times.

As long as this is the top comment on every post in this community I'm not leaving it.

Huh, talk about a feature that's so close to great. With a little "automatically translated from language by Reddit" that sounds awesome.

Why is it stupid? Reddit is auto-translating using LLMs. That means any text from a non-English speaker has to be AI generated. Non-English speakers are incapable of submitting non-AI text to a forum in English that bans AI text. It's literally impossible to ban AI text without banning AI-translated text.

touché.

Using a VPN? Usually that my reason

Good news this comment is the second comment on this thread not the top

Not on my built-in Google app. I do use a VPN on Opera, and Ecosia has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well too, but I don't do anything fancy to my Google other than YouTube Revanced.

Get off reddit, it's almost as bad as Facebook and X. You will not find anything but misery there.

i’m surprised the shareholders allowed such a racist move.

People reading and responding to AI generated text and both not knowing due to auto translation. Great...

Specific non english subs are probably the best place to avoid accidentally reading LLM comments with it being less likely to encounter other language users.

Does reddit make it clear when a text is auto translated into another language or do they try to pass it off like it is the original comment that was posted by a native speaker?

The latter.

pretty much why reddit is forcing logins from USers who are scare of getting banned. they cant make money off of AI slop.

Ah, they ban translated texts. Because there are loads of non-native speakers who have a way better command of the English language than a large percentile of the native speakers...

Most people are gonna be on Reddit until it shuts down

Meh. It's Reddit. They have a ban quota.

Oh! That's what's going on. I thought people were just writing non sequitur alt-language posts

I'll take my down votes for this but facebook is better than reddit if you just lurk. I basically get cooking videos. I hate to say it but the cooking videos have been actually helpful. I mean there's no point in advertising to me since I have other expenses.

I hate Reddit as well. These days I just use it to find solutions and tips quickly. Other than it’s useless. Old Reddit is not even Usable w/o an account.

You and ... Bots?, most people quit in 23

You're right, it's obviously jealousy. /S

I don't use Reddit anymore and some people still use it