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Okay, real talk guys. If there’s one thing LLM’s actually CAN do, its language and translation. The best ones are also great at context.

You sound a bit like people yelling at companies for laying off typewriter manufactures when the computer came along.

And we are in the technology community…

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Umbrias@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
they cant actually but it’s convincing enough that you’ll think it’s the same, and in the process make it financially impossible for improvements to be made by actual translators.

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- themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Im curious as how it makes it finacially impossible for improvements by actual translators?
  
  And what improvements do you mean?
  
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  - Umbrias@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    if you put the people making translation possible out of work, you will run out of sources for useful translations.
    
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orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It can’t self-correct, write new curriculum, etc. It’s an abyss for errors and it does not understand when you correct it. I’ve tried and watched it give me the same alternating 2 answers that I told it were both wrong. If it’s wrong, you basically have no idea. You’re putting trust in a navigator that is simply reading instructions understanding none of them.

I’ve been in tech professionally for around 18 years and have lived through trends and changes. This is by far the worst one and the most haphazard. I’m not anti-AI (I use Copilot at work and it’s constantly wrong), but what is happening now with this AI wave is just reckless. They’re throwing it at everything because shareholders love shiny new things that make line go up.

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noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
4 month ago I thought I’d cut some corners and instead of looking for an online Cyrillic keyboard to transliterate a simple three word phrase, I’d ask ChatGPT. it transliterated “zvezda” (звєзда, a star) as жірка (“zhirka”, a frying pan). that was the first and the last time I tried using LLM to do language stuff.

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projectmoon@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The problem is that while LLMs can translate, it’s still machine translation and isn’t always accurate. It’s also not going to just be for that. It’ll be applying “AI” to everything that looks like it might vaguely fit, and it’ll stifle productivity.

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witx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not really, back then you replaced people with more people that knew how to operate “insert tech advancement of the time”. Sure there were still people losing their jobs, but not so much like this.

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
oh sure it’s great until it confidently hallucinates something completely insane and you have no way of realizing it’s gone off the rails

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- themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Duolingo still have translators. They just dont have as much. Now they only need to double check the output.
  
  Its not an all or nothing situation.
  
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thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Trading off quality for money.

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TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Bro every post jn Lemmy about AI carries a bandwagon full of hateful morons who don’t even know why they’re so angry.

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