Gizmodo Spain closes its doors and fires all its employees: it will be replaced by artificial intelligence

Gizmodo Spain employees were just fired via video call. Founded in 2002 by Peter Rojas, the technology blog made the decision to cut its Spanish division to convert the site in our language to self-publish translations. The team responsible for Gizmodo in Spain learned of this terrible news through a virtual meeting and His dismissal took effect last Tuesday, August 29.As noted by Matas S. Zhavia, who until now was the editor of the media. “Hi friends. On Tuesday, they shut down Gizmodo Spain to self-publish translations (AI took my job, literally),” he commented on Twitter.

Hello friends. They closed on Tuesday @GizmodoES To turn it into self-publishing translations (AI has literally taken over my job).

Soon start looking for a new job. If you know of an offer in line with my 13 years of experience I would be very grateful for the help 🙏

Matas S. Zhavia (@matiass) August 31, 2023

The program will now be responsible for translating Gizmodo content into Spanish, and there will be no more original content in our language.

Mattas S.’s message. Zavia clear in Elon Musk’s social network: In Spain, we will only receive content translated directly by some type of software (i.e. artificial intelligence) and there will be no original content of any kind. Gizmodo’s decision appears to have come as a surprise to our region’s employees, and it’s possible that the decision, which has not been officially announced, was made based on declining advertising revenue and the media crisis. . Gizmodo is one of the most powerful technology media outlets worldwidefounded in the early 2000s and later acquired by Univision Communications in 2016 and by Great Hill Partners already in 2019.

From now on, you can read articles in Gizmodo Spain capped with the following message: “This content has been automatically translated from the original article. Due to the nuances of machine translation, there may be slight differencesAutomatic translations are usually messy and require people who are proficient in the language into which the original content will be translated, otherwise they will end up generating texts of questionable meaning. vandalwe’re sending a big hug to the now-old editorial team of Gizmodo Spainwho has worked with impeccable professionalism for years.