The Great Enshittification…

Edit: I am referring to the UI change. They worsened the UX in favor of their AI ads. I’m not a fan of their new AI agent stuff, but this isn’t what I was criticizing here.

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    8 hours ago

    As stupid as that home page looks, DeepL is one of the services that was already using “AI” and it’s a valid use case. Has the functionality actually changed?

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      8 hours ago

      Yep but he UX is the problem here, the homepage used to be the translator. Fortunately, you can fix this by bookmarking the /translator page.

      I didn’t complain about that huge pop-up that shifts the whole UI down so you have to either close it or scroll down, but it’s becoming worse and worse.

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        8 hours ago

        Ok I see what you mean. On mobile it still opens the translator but on desktop it’s pretty annoying.

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          7 hours ago

          I hope they never touch the mobile app ever. Upgrade the ai model? Add new languages? Sure! But please no ads or popups. Even Apple’s suite is making AI ads now…

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      7 hours ago

      Well, but not GenAI in the current meaning; LLMs have similarities to it but still use a different technology

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          5 hours ago

          The screenshot doesn’t claim to use LLMs though.

          Why wouldn’t a language translation service not use a large language model? The service is named after Deep Learning after all.

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            3 hours ago

            Sorry, I don’t get the double negative. My point was that DeepL using Ai in general is not weird or bad by itself.