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European alternatives to Google Translate? Preferably not LLM. (piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago by unknowablenight@piefed.social to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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Hello all! I'm looking for a good alternative to Google Translate. I would prefer one that isn't using a modern LLM, but I understand if that's not possible. I would also like it to not be collecting personal data.

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[โ€“] Europellinore@europe.pub 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DeepL https://www.deepl.com/en/translate

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OP specifically requested non-LLM.

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can a translation app work without LLM though ?

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same way they worked before LLMs came on to the scene a few years ago.

Were you under the impression that that was simply an intractable problem before we decided to brute force it with GPUs? Various online translation services have existed for well over a decade (honestly, I donโ€™t even remember when they first started to become a thing, but itโ€™s not a new technology). NLP has been an important domain of computer science for the vast majority of the life of the field itself.

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's NLP?

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Natural Language Processing.

As the article mentions, it is closely related, though very much not identical to, the field of Artificial Intelligence. And do please note that my usage of โ€œArtificial Intelligenceโ€ here is absolutely not synonymous with the big tech buzzword circlejerk definition of โ€œAIโ€ thatโ€™s bandied about so clumsily these days (which is, incidentally, why I always tend to quote it, or just refer directly to LLMs, when I am taking about โ€œAIโ€ as understood by the layman/marketing and sales types).