At least you can reasonably use them for translation and in a second pass summarize or just have it detect if a document contains specific keywords / phrases.

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chx 7 months ago | parent [-]

Yeah but this is where a human is indispensable.

Suppose the source language has words which could be translated into multiple English words -- look at all the power banks which are advertised as charging treasure for example. One can see how bank vs treasure are close, after all. Further, even in English multiple phrases could be used "don't preserve" "bin it" "throw it away" and countless others. Even worse, it could be a company specific phrase which would only stand out as odd "apply procedure 66 to it".

If given a little thought this is exactly the kind of task where a native speaker would shine and LLM might just miss or if given a wide enough net produce a million false positive.

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mschuster91 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Sure! But in any case, it's worth a shot to preprocess document dumps with AI first - if it fails to spot anything obvious, you can still go and have humans sift through the pile manually, whereas if it does spot something humans can immediately zero in instead of wasting their time.

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chx 7 months ago | parent [-]

hopeless AI cultists everywhere

as I said above: I already asked dang to delete this account, I do not want to be here anymore

	▲	mschuster91 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		AI is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. It is smart to use it when it makes sense, it is dumb to shoehorn it into something it by definition cannot do.

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infecto 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Just tested out the treasure idea and seems to work fine in ChatGPT. I suspect if given context at the task at hand that the LLM would provide a pretty decent first pass.

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chx 7 months ago | parent [-]

Y'all are hopeless. I already asked dang to delete this account.

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infecto 7 months ago | parent [-]

What a weird response. Just providing a counterpoint to your idea that I don't believe is correct. I hope dang does not delete your account because I am not sure whats going on here and I hope you find the help/peace you need.

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chx 7 months ago | parent [-]

I listed like half a dozen things that could go wrong and the only reply is "look this particular one in this singular case the bullshit is accidentally correct".

Hopeless, as I said.

	▲	infecto 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Ouch, sorry you are in distress but let me repeat and help flesh it out for you. You would be surprised that when given the context at hand, the level of confusion would be a lot less than your constrained world model envisions. I have been pleasantly surprised with LLMs ability to translate, including legal documents. Should it be the only step in the process? No. Like I originally pointed out, I think a LLM can serve quite well in initial first passes. Its quite naive to hand wave it away with some what-if scenarios and then just become a dismissive immature kid when someone disagrees with you. I can only imagine when you have a corpus to work from of existing legal documents especially for translations, that you get quite close to the spirit of whats written. "Come delete my account dang". So weird....