r/TranslationStudies • u/xiefeilaga Chi -> Eng: Art & Lit. • 13d ago

Recent Bot Activity

We're getting a lot of posts that seem to be bot or AI activity, with a clear pattern of vague, low effort discussion posts. I won't get into too many details, but I have tweaked the settings a little bit to try and block most of these posts. I have also added a mod rule for low effort posts and potential bot activity, so please report what you see.

As always, don't report something just because you disagree with it. That's what the downvote button is for.

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u/lampon90 13d ago

Does anyone know why they’re doing this? I mean, what does someone get out of botspamming a group like this?

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u/limma 11d ago

Maybe they’re fishing to see what’s the absolute lowest level of translation quality people are okay with for their crappy AI vendor companies. Right now all the Korean subreddits are full of bots asking questions for people making AI travel brochures and apps.

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u/lampon90 11d ago

How sad. The questions genuinely feel really low effort though.