cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35078393

AI has made the experience of language learners way shittier because now people will just call them AI on the internet.

Also, imagine trying to learn a language and not being able to tell whether it’s your own lack of knowledge or if what you’re reading is actually AI slop and doesn’t make sense.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Depends on what you call a mistake. I was interacting on ich iel a while back (I don’t speak German but the meme had clear meaning as a fellow nurse) and they said chat gpt had almost perfect grammar but that it translated “median basillic vein” as the “median basil vein” (like the herb).

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      Haven’t machine translators always been some form of language model? Pretty sure it was invented by training a system with two human translations of the same document/work