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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.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month 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.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's much more likely that we sound like children than we sound like an LLM.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Children aren’t obsessed with technically correct punctuation, whereas LLMs are. For example, they just love to use em dashes — like this.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

The way LLM write compared to people who just learning the second language is probably gonna be significantly different, so i doubt there will be the case. Unless the person learn the second language from LLM then yeah.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wouldn't someone make mistakes unlike AI?

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Depends on what you call a mistake. I was interacting on ich iel a while back (I don't speak German but the meme had clear meaning as a fellow nurse) and they said chat gpt had almost perfect grammar but that it translated "median basillic vein" as the "median basil vein" (like the herb).

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

What if we had two circulatory systems, one for blood, and one for pesto?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month 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

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I think translation machines have always used similar language models

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who fucking cares what other people think...

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone who has to communicate with other people.

So, everyone.

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Exclusively if it's people you care about or you depend on. Anyone else can royally fuck themselves with their opinions.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Every single person on earth. There’s nothing more inherently human than caring about what others think.

I get what you mean though - I also try not to let other people’s judgment affect what I do, but I’d be lying to myself if I claimed it doesn’t, and especially if I claimed I don’t care.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why? Somebody learning a new language would make mistakes, an AI would make no mistakes.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't say no mistakes, just different types of mistakes.