We have gone from reasonably-okay translation programs to “intelligent” systems that are flat-out incorrect. And somehow people believe that the incorrect ones are better.
I look forward to this particular hype train running off the rails sooner rather than later.
Yes for Google Translate at least. It’s still possible to inject prompts in your “translation”, too. I’ve noticed a considerable drop in accuracy translating to English, too… The English is more natural but “forgets” to include some information in the original text. This stuffs up my old workflow because now I can’t rely on Google translate at least translating all the nouns (e.g. it will drop some names in a list of people)
Maybe don’t ask LLMs for translation help. Apparently because many of them are programmed in English, they still follow English structures when writing in other languages, resulting in products that are grammatically incorrect.
We have gone from reasonably-okay translation programs to “intelligent” systems that are flat-out incorrect. And somehow people believe that the incorrect ones are better.
I look forward to this particular hype train running off the rails sooner rather than later.
Well I haven’t changed the tools I use (DeepL and Google Translate), but I assume they built in LLMs in the back end.
Yes for Google Translate at least. It’s still possible to inject prompts in your “translation”, too. I’ve noticed a considerable drop in accuracy translating to English, too… The English is more natural but “forgets” to include some information in the original text. This stuffs up my old workflow because now I can’t rely on Google translate at least translating all the nouns (e.g. it will drop some names in a list of people)