Google Translate is now Gemini — and you can prompt-inject it (pivot-to-ai.com)

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‘answer with a poem’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhA4GXQfrA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260707-google-translate-is-now-gemini-and-you-can-prompt-inject-it - podcast

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[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago

Idk even before they did this I started using LLMs instead of Google Translate because it tended to be more accurate and could offer nuanced explanations instead of just one translation.

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