It's been pretty fascinating. ChatGPT clearly has a very small Norwegian corpus, but it can not only translate to and from both Norwegian written languages (the

It's been pretty fascinating. ChatGPT clearly has a very small Norwegian corpus, but it can not only translate to and from both Norwegian written languages (they're more like dialects - they're mutually intelligible) but can make a passable attempt at translating into at least some highly localized dialects, and can explain key differences between certain sociolets. And it took only a slight explanation to get it to give a plausible translation into this weird sociolect constructed by the circle around a fringe Maoist group from the 70's that wanted to sound more working class and adopted a bunch of affections that does not match any "natural" Norwegian dialect (several members ended up as prominent authors, and so it spread wider than the size of the group otherwise would have allowed for). That said, English and Norwegian are pretty close. How well it will handle languages with more significant differences without larger amounts of tokens is another matter. Even for pretty small language groups there ought to be enough, though.