Reviews reporting thread

pauldunhill wrote: More non-sensical drivel by AlainPP. I usually scroll past his/their reviews but this one piqued my interest since I attended the tour the live tracks were drawn from. The review really is just utter gibberish, even allowing for possible language difficulties??!! (as many have said before there it does seem that a few people use this nom de plume and the level of absurdity varying accordingly)..... https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=90963

Alain himself confirmed that he uses machine translation. https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133946

AlainPP, translated by my dear friend Saga wrote: "Indeed, I am using Google Translate, so the meaning of what I write tends to get lost in translation... I'm just making the most of what I have available, I'm no robot... that stuff makes me kinda laugh, I am the only one who shares my chronicles, you can also find the original ones on sites like Profil prog and Prog censor. Good day to all those who follow me!"

Edited by Hrychu - April 25 2025 at 13:53

AlanB wrote: https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3181266 Review is in Spanish. Google Translate still leaves it with some sentences that don't make sense.

I google translated and did some editing. Other than adding a "t" too "Foxtro" and a note at the end on it being translated and only submitting reviews in English, the only thing I changed was what came out for lyrics. I changed "there's a fat woman outside the room" to "There's a fat old lady outside the saloon."

https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3185344

New member - criticises other reviewers comments. Doesn't actually say anything really about the music?!

Plus who is Gary Cherone?!?

Edited by pauldunhill - May 11 2025 at 11:02

I edited the review and it was removed again. What was the reason?

I tried posting again but got this error message:

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The last two rewievs (by Pavel) of Roz Vitalis don't have a word about music and are clearly AI-generated.
Trademark ample use "Is not just A but B", em dashes, bold fonts [that the guy didn't even bother to copy correctly], lack of any actual content, off-sounding methphors, all delivered with weird eloquence never seen from a Russian guy. This is as blatant as it can get.

Edited by Homotopy - June 15 2025 at 21:15

Indeed, though he at least adds some specifics about the music to his prompts and cares to format the text

Edited by Homotopy - June 17 2025 at 11:52

Homotopy wrote: Now 2 AI reviews for this album from Russian accounts created solely to give 5-stars to Roz Vitalis and Compassionizer: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=91484

So the Russian Web-Brigades of trolls and bots have reached Progarchives by now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Guess it was inevitable. :D

Hi,

Logan ... a couple of notes on translations.

I've had a life of 45 years seeing works by my father translated from Portuguese, and I have to tell you that some of it is the ______ of things, and a lot of them are so opinionated, as to just about leave the work itself as saying anything.

One that really bothers me, is a specific work, which is a sort of short story, where the colors that the main character is wearing, are immediately turned into a political forum about that time ... early 1970's (have to recheck sorry!) ... and it killed the story, that was more of a free form fantasy than it was likely a political idea and concept.

Being the scholar he was, the political idea is possible, but I can tell you that I sincerely doubt that he would leave himself open to any more censorship in Portugal, specially when he knew that he was being watched and for the last years of his life, he stuck to literary/quotidian studies and his own poetry.

The other concern, is that the literary studies tend to include some critical ideas on the concepts of time and space and the ideas for having seen/created that work, and this is an area, that is horrendously ignored and disdained on a lot of work on PA ... as if the Internet was set on destroying history, to make sure that no other God would come alive, except that of the fan, and the commerciality of the work.

Seeing some folks here have issues with translations and specially using Google or other tools is a concern, and while the musician might have a better hope in mind, that bad thing is that those translation tools are still in their infancy and it will likely take some better designed AI to make them better ... and this was an issue before and will continue to be so.

Peter Hammill and Peter Sinfield, also did some translations of Italian stuff for several LP's ... and I have to tell you that they weren't very good either. And in some cases, it did not help the story ... Felona e Serona as translated by PH is not exactly listenable or as neat as the Italian version ... it lacks the color, and maybe a more literal translation would have been much better.

SIDE NOTE: I'm retired, and aside from losing my Internet or computers (can't afford a W11 computer) I will help with some translations from Portuguese and Spanish ... and if needed I can hack it in French really well (took it in school for 5 years and can read it fine, just not speak as the translations don't arrive fast enough at your tongue! One side note two ... if things refer to history, I'm ok with that from Portugal, some Spain and Brazil ... but a Chilean something or other might not come off as good from me.