RE: Bad Translations - AI or Deepl.com/Google Translate
I have not used deepl before. I generally use AI a lot but mainly for preparing proposals, reword my work emails and such. But never for translation although am not sure if Google Translator uses AI in its translation. And slop is another tool I have not heard before. Interesting.
But when AI is used, I usually based the usage on its perfectness in the choice of words. This is in relation to emails mainly, especially when I know the person or if I have spoken with the person before, and I know the level of spoken English of that person is not the level that I read in email.
But when it comes to AI translation, I suppose we can use the same logic? If it reads too perfect, it does look AI generated? But can we blame them if English is not their spoken language? When I translate to Spanish, I have no idea if the translation is correct and can only trust that the translator is doing its job properly.
It’s not about whether what’s written is perfect Spanish, English or any other language, but rather that the translation app or AI uses certain word choices that the average Steemian simply wouldn’t use. This also applies to a number of standard phrases, and from these you can clearly see that the text wasn’t written by a human. These kinds of standard phrases are particularly noticeable in stories.
To be honest, I wouldn’t know what I’d actually need AI for, apart from generating images – something I learnt on Steemit. The Italian community organised a competition where you had to do just that.
Translation apps and programmes will also make use of this, just like Grammarly, Canva, the standard search engines in browsers and who knows what else.
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