daughter asked me if the following impressions are correct

1) Google Translate is worse now
2) it's worse because it seems to flat out make up stuff
3) this must be because they're using so-called "generative AI", in a way their previous machine learning didn't
4) DeepL is also worse now for the same reason, but less so than Google Translate.

this is also my subjective impression of the state of things, but I have no idea how one would go about proving whether that's correct. it's not like we can get evidence of what's inside the proprietary black boxes