I've spent a lot of time comparing ChatGPT4 to DeepL Pro on English to French translation. ChatGPT4 is quite good, but not as consistently good as DeepL. But t

I've spent a lot of time comparing ChatGPT4 to DeepL Pro on English to French translation. ChatGPT4 is quite good, but not as consistently good as DeepL. But the interesting thing IMHO is the nature of the mistakes ChatGPT makes... often they're quite elementary mistakes (e.g., the occasional subject-adjective word order) while it gets the big picture right. Whereas DeepL is sometimes the reverse. ChatGPT also has the advantage of being able to tailor its output to a particular context, e.g., it can tailor legal translations to terms used in Canadian law rather than French law. However, for longer texts, I've noticed that ChatGPT will sometimes omit small parts of the source text from the translation, which is unfortunate. I have a colleague who says that the Mandarin translations done by ChatGPT are an order of magnitude better than DeepL though, which is interesting.