So if the wheels of a 200000 Euro transport container break and a 20 million Euro satellite spills onto the tarmac, because the machine translation system did not catch that the author of the source text got "brake" and "break" mixed up, hey, at least you saved a few hundred bucks for a translator.

If you apply this to legal or technical documents, mistakes can have massive consequences. A contract might become invalid or a very expensive piece of machinery might break. Worst case scenario, e.g. with mistranslated medical documents, is that someone dies.

If you want to see terrible machine translation, just look at any online store that feels the need to translate its offerings into the language of the country you're browsing from. You'll get wrong words, brandnames and proper names translated, mistakes that a human would never make.

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I would not ever take the output of any software translation as accurate. Even excluding hallucinations (and that's a big exclude), what you're not getting from it is context dependent meanings (like homophones, idioms, slang, etc). Fastest way to accidentally insult someone

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work.
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The trade-off for getting pretty things for free from the plagiarism machine that steals work from starving artists and poisons communities is that those artists and the people living in those communities get to drag you. If you are such a sensitive snowflake that you can't handle it, don't use AI.

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

He's Van Helsing, and hiding that he's obviously also a vampire, just one from a different type as Dracula. He's excited to count the garlic flowers he puts in Lucy's room, the boxes of dust, the seconds it takes him to hypnotize Mina...