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duskdozer 2 hours ago

>What if a non-native English speaker uses the help of an AI model in the formulation of some issue/task?

Firefox has direct translation built in. One can self-host libretranslate. There are many free sites to paste in language input and get a direct translation sans filler and AI "interpretation". Just write in your native language or your imperfect English.

aleph_minus_one 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Translation software does not solve the problem that the tone that you have to use in English is often very different from the tone in your native language. What I would write in German would sometimes not be socially acceptable for English speakers.

If the native language is very different from English, this problem gets much worse.

This is a problem that LLM claim to partially mitigate (and is one reason why non-native speakers could be tempted to use them), but hardly any classical translation tool can.

duskdozer an hour ago | parent [-]

I'd be interested to see examples of this where the translated text is not editorializing and behaves like other machine translators, just better. I expect there to be some missed nuance when translating languages, but I also expect LLMs to clobber it.