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> LLM translation is shit but it's borderline free I don't think this is true. LLM translation will generally satisfy the core goals of (1) communicating the i
by thaumasiotes 3mo ago
> LLM translation is shit but it's borderline free
I don't think this is true. LLM translation will generally satisfy the core goals of (1) communicating the information that's present in the source document; and (2) not communicating information that isn't present in the source document.
There are some style issues -- I have a comment sidethread complaining about them -- but those are very much second-order effects compared to "can I get a foreigner to understand what my document says?"
- applfanboysbgon 3mo agoPossibly, if it's a strictly formulated medical, business, or legal document (but if it's a medical, business, or legal document, being right 99% of the time isn't good enough!). Google Translate could already do that much, incidentally. If it's not a formal document - if it's anything vaguely resembling casual speech or literary writing - an LLM will butcher it in all kinds of ways no matter how much context it has.