I worry that we are in a brief interregnum during which web browsers can provide good online translation of news stories in other languages, from foreign media.
Sooner rather than later, the big tech folks backing Trump will realize they can corrupt the online translation LLMs to bias foreign news stories in favour of their own political agenda. (After all, isn't propaganda the ideal application for AI slop?)
@cstross in an authoritarian world of strong men all translated content will be machine translated. This will function as information border with unwanted concepts, Infos etc by any side can be blocked instantly.
This keeps the walled garden clean.
And in the long run Learning languages will be forbidden.
@jmax @cstross
It's probably not a transformer Model. Those will be deprecated, like civil rights rights. It's more like an RegEx. Maybe sequence to sequence or something new.
it could also be working in combination with human censors(connected to some input/output neurons) keeping it from hallucinating, like the Human Input in ChatGPT does.
It will not be perfekt, but sufficient for the masses.