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Google Translate having a normal one after I accidentally typed some German into the English side:
What's the over/under on an LLM being involved here?
(Aside: translation is IMO one of the use cases where LLMs actually have some use, but like any algorithmic translation there are a ton of limitations)
How the fuck can a hallucinating bullshit machine have use in translation
Machine translation was the original purpose of the transformer architecture, and I guess it was unreasonably good at it compared to the existing state-of-the-art RNNs or whatever they were doing before.