Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

Gizmodo owner G/O Media shut down the blog's Spanish-language site, Gizmodo en Español last week, firing the publication's human staff — and replacing them with an AI translation tool instead. "Hello friends," former Gizmodo en Español writer Matías S. Zavia wrote in an August 29 post to Twitter-formerly-X. "On Tuesday they shut down @GizmodoES to […]

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