cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35078393

AI has made the experience of language learners way shittier because now people will just call them AI on the internet.

Also, imagine trying to learn a language and not being able to tell whether it’s your own lack of knowledge or if what you’re reading is actually AI slop and doesn’t make sense.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Nah, there’s a difference between chatbot and not knowing a language.

    They’re predictive text, so grammar is actually one of it’s strong suits. The problem is the words don’t actually mean anything.

    Someone online would likely spend a little time trying to understand it, run thru a translator, realized it was slop, and move on relatively quickly.

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    4 months ago

    Nah. If I’m learning a new language, I’m going to speak like a toddler at first. I’m more likely to be accused of that than an LLM capable of long paragraphs giving minimal accuracy about stuff

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    As a person who learned English as a second language, I would say probably not. If anything, a human’s grammar/conjugations might be off if they’re learning a new language. A machine, as others have pointed out, would have proper grammar but might be nonsensical.

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        4 months ago

        Haven’t machine translators always been some form of language model? Pretty sure it was invented by training a system with two human translations of the same document/work

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      4 months ago

      What if you use AI to translate some text because you can’t express yourself well enough yet?

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        I think translation machines have always used similar language models