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Poll: In your (main) language pair, how do translations done by ChatGPT or similar compare to yours? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "In your (main) language pair, how do translations done by ChatGPT or similar compare to yours?".
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Iulia Parvu 
Romania
Local time: 09:54
Member (2022)
English to Romanian
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| They are terrible... | Oct 12, 2023 |
...if we're talking about fields such as literature or marketing.
They are quite good with more technical texts though.
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absciarretta
Norway
Local time: 08:54
Member (2008)
English to Norwegian
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By that I mean, they are far better than the results from machine translation which turns into nonsense with pretend words, but they still need a lot of work by a translator. I am currently working on a job like this, and well, I still have to do a lot of research since ChatGPT has a tendency to directly translate terms from English to my language and present them as the established terms. Which they are not. Not even close.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 08:54
Spanish to English
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I wasn't aware that ChatGPT could "do" translations. The mind boggles. I shudder to think what the outcomes would be like. In fact, I prefer not to know.
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I haven’t used ChatGPT much because in my first experiences the results were as terrible as terrible can be in all my language pairs, though worst in French, Spanish and Italian than in English to Portuguese. To make matters worse, sometimes it lies very convincingly, answers questions incorrectly though sounding good. It broke the little faith I placed on it. It’s definitely not for me, it’s just a kind of “parrot”.
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Thomas Lof
Local time: 08:54
Member (2020)
English to Dutch
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| Deeply Terrible | Oct 12, 2023 |
For technical texts applying AI/MT-applications the target text is in general terrible (if translated into Dutch). The Dutch resembles EU-(Brussels)/Flemish 'Dutch' style, not Standaardnederlands. They translate technical terms even between records (eg in XTM or Studio or Transit) differently. Especially when the source text in not US- or UK-English, but phonetic English or non-native English. Moreover they translate on a word by word basis, instead of keeping in mind how sentences should be str... See more For technical texts applying AI/MT-applications the target text is in general terrible (if translated into Dutch). The Dutch resembles EU-(Brussels)/Flemish 'Dutch' style, not Standaardnederlands. They translate technical terms even between records (eg in XTM or Studio or Transit) differently. Especially when the source text in not US- or UK-English, but phonetic English or non-native English. Moreover they translate on a word by word basis, instead of keeping in mind how sentences should be structured, eg for user manuals which have to be in conformity with the standard NEN5509 User Manuals.
Revising/proofing/editing of such texts takes about 25% more time than translating from scratch... ▲ Collapse
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Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 08:54
English to German
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| ChatGPT is NOT a machine translation tool! | Oct 12, 2023 |
So why should we use it as such?
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 08:54
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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| Not bad at all... | Oct 12, 2023 |
But I'll keep it at that. This is just another thread that will oppose people who think MT is terrible because they don't know better as they didn't properly train themselves in the use of MT by exploring it for months and months, against people who know the real benefits of machine translation because they learnt how to use it in their advantage.
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 08:54
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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I would just like to add that I didn't answer this poll because the possible answers are poorly formulated. I mean, there's a whole world between answer A "terrible" and answer B "OK". MT translations are not terrible, but they are obviously also not OK because that would mean that editing wouldn't be really necessary.
[Edited at 2023-10-12 10:07 GMT]
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No, idea. I have never used ChatGPT for anything.
And what is meant by 'or similar'?
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 08:54
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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Yetta Jensen Bogarde wrote:
And what is meant by 'or similar'?
I took the liberty to assume they mean machine translation in general, but this is indeed another poorly formulated poll question.
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 08:54
Member (2009)
English to Croatian
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GPT is my twin brother, we complement and finish each other’s sentences.
[Edited at 2023-10-12 15:39 GMT]
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 07:54
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| Simple answer | Oct 12, 2023 |
I can't compare myself to machines like ChatGPT.
In my experience, ChatGPT's answers fall a long way short.
I don't see the point of this tool being used here as MT. It can help us get answers for certain terms, but it can't replace a human translator or being compared to one.
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Yetta Jensen Bogarde wrote:
No, idea. I have never used ChatGPT for anything.
And what is meant by 'or similar'?
I assumed that by "similar" it was meant Bing and Bard, but I haven’t tried them and I don't intend to...
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Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 08:54
English to German
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I assumed that by "similar" it was meant Bing and Bard, but I haven’t tried them and I don't intend to...
I have tried Bard and ChatGPT but do not use them as MT tools. It's not their main function.
[Bearbeitet am 2023-10-12 10:26 GMT]
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