[object Object]May 27

I’m glad people are finally noticing LLM translators will just make plausible sentences the fuck up when they’re fed anything but a perfect source to translate, which makes them exhausting and damaging for language learning and a variety of other situations where you’re expected to actually, you know, use the fucking language for anything but a highly inaccurate skim

thank fuck all the language learning companies didn’t jump onto the LLM train, right?

…right?

Show thread[object Object]May 27

this post brought to you by the language learning app I’m using semi-consistently telling me that names, formatting artifacts, and words in languages other than the one being learned, all have fabricated definitions related to the sentence they appear next to

this is a very hard error to catch if you aren’t paying attention and it’s actively slowing me down

Show thread[object Object]May 27

“LLMs might be horrible at almost everything but at least they’re good at translating and accessibility”

are they though? or are they fucking terrible and you didn’t notice because the output looked good and you didn’t check it?

Show threadDaniël Franke May 27
@zzt LLMs: good at everything that you are not equipped to verify.
Show threadkabel42May 27
@ainmosni @zzt ai is great at things that are very cheap to validate, because it learns to get the person that gets 3¢ per validation to click the green button
Show threadsabik

@kabel42 @ainmosni @zzt
> [ai] learns to get the person that gets 3¢ per validation to click the green button

in this setup, ai learns to produce plausible text rather than correct

May 28 at 12:05amWeb