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1114 points namukang | 10 comments | 11 Apr 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 1.174s | source | bottom
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AndyKelley ◴[14 Apr 25 05:55 UTC] No.43678450[source]▶
> I really was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp.

Yes, you were. Next time, please choose a company that contributes to society rather than shoving ads in everyone's faces.

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1. underdeserver ◴[14 Apr 25 06:06 UTC] No.43678500[source]▶
Google contributes to society.

Search helps people find information. YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created. Without Google Translate I'd have had a much harder time in a recent trip to Japan.

There's a lot of bad, but no contribution to society? That's a bit much.

Disclaimer: Ex-googler (left 2 years ago).

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2. palata ◴[14 Apr 25 10:13 UTC] No.43679744[source]▶
> Without Google Translate I'd have had a much harder time in a recent trip to Japan.

I haven't used Google Translate in years. You do know there are alternatives, don't you?

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3. underdeserver ◴[14 Apr 25 11:10 UTC] No.43680028[source]▶
I do. I try them from time to time, they weren't better.
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4. palata ◴[14 Apr 25 11:34 UTC] No.43680182{3}[source]▶
I didn't say they were better. Just that without Google Translate, I doubt you would have had a much harder time in your recent trip to Japan because you could have used them, and they aren't particularly worse :-).
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5. Mithriil ◴[14 Apr 25 14:25 UTC] No.43681691{3}[source]▶
Try out the big LLMs for translating and explaining translation (e.g. ChatGPT). Much better than Google translate in my experience.
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6. Tainnor ◴[14 Apr 25 15:03 UTC] No.43682089{4}[source]▶
It's not just about whether you yourself use Google Translate, it's that - much more than anywhere else I've ever travelled - Japanese people will regularly use Google Translate to communicate with you, usually by typing or speaking into their tablet and then showing you the machine translation.
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7. GuinansEyebrows ◴[14 Apr 25 15:41 UTC] No.43682553{4}[source]▶
I don't think switching to an LLM is exactly in line with what GP was trying to say :)
8. mrgoldenbrown ◴[14 Apr 25 17:37 UTC] No.43683942[source]▶
They are actively enshittifying search and YouTube. So if these things are good for society, and Google is making them worse , it feels like we shouldn't be giving them too much credit.
9. underdeserver ◴[15 Apr 25 01:18 UTC] No.43688068{5}[source]▶
Actually in quite a few places there (mostly in Kyushu) they used a bespoke handheld device or DeepL.
10. justin66 ◴[15 Apr 25 03:14 UTC] No.43688668[source]▶
> YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created.

That's bizarre.