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[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 42 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The answer is AI slop. Kagi translate uses a slopinator in the background, you can pass anything in the to query parameter.

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 72 points 20 hours ago

Translation is actually one of the real valid uses for LLMs. It's actually what they where originally designed for. They are DAMN good at it to.

It picks up on local dialects and cultural euphemism very well and give you very natural output.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

See deepl.com (pronounced deepulu in Japanse fyi)

[-] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 minutes ago

FYI DeepL is ML based while Kagi Translate is LLM based

[-] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

I had to very, very grudgingly but rightfully apologize to one of my traders for using an LLM to translate some Vietnamese financial accounts to English. I read to fast and missed the part where he said he used it for translation. I still worry the actual financial ratios are off, so I'll have my other guy do that, but yeah, ok I hate these things but they are good at translation.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 46 points 20 hours ago

I mean at least its a valid use of a LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL, focus on it being a language model. If they actually optimize it for translating it could be a good thing.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago

I’m a language teacher and tbh, deepl is difficult to detect at a high level. It’s easier if you know their style and if you can recognize phrasing from their native language, but if you’re giving a native Dutch speaker you don’t know an essay to write at C1 academic German, good fucking luck telling if it’s an ai translation or not.

[-] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

I'm a C1 Dutch speaker (barely, technically) and before I understood how evil LLMs are, I played around with some of them to have them tweak things I wrote in Dutch into different styles. It was pretty eye opening.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

DeepL does a fairly good job translating academic articles. It has been extremely helpful in that regard. Of course I've seen some issues, but they've been minor and if you know the subject easy to figure out

[-] not_IO 3 points 17 hours ago

even if you have a hunch, you can't prove it

[-] not_IO 55 points 22 hours ago

linkedin has been slop even before LLMs were a thing, so it fits xD

[-] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 20 hours ago

LinkedIn is owned by MicroSlop after all

[-] chuso@fedia.io 29 points 21 hours ago

Indeed, you can choose anything you want as the destination language.

A screenshot that shows that the same "I got a new job" that was used in Kagi's example of translation to LinkedIn speak is now used to translate it to Slavoj Žižek speak, offering a long and rambling speech in a Žižek way and offering options to adjust the theoretical focus or the level of Žižekian intensity.

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