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.
It’s much more likely that we sound like children than we sound like an LLM.
Children aren’t obsessed with technically correct punctuation, whereas LLMs are. For example, they just love to use em dashes — like this.
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
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.
