Gizmodo fires Spanish-language site employees and moves forward with AI translations

The parent company of tech site Gizmodo has fired all employees of the Spanish-language site and replaced them with AI translations. G/O Media does not explain why it took that step.

Below each article there is now a notice ‘This content has been automatically translated from the original material. Due to the nuances of machine translation, there may be slight differences. According to some readers, the translations are problematic because they start in Spanish and suddenly switch to English and contain many errors or strange wording, writes The Verge. G/O Media dismissed the employees via video link last week, reports AZ Adslzone.

Many media companies are experimenting with the use of artificial intelligence on sites. Gizmodo’s Spanish site is the first known recent case of AI replacing human workers. For es.gizmodo.com, several people worked on original Spanish articles and translations of articles from the English-language Gizmodo.