{"id":48014,"date":"2024-01-19T19:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=48014"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:19:14","slug":"the-perils-of-ai-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2024\/01\/19\/the-perils-of-ai-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of AI translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Rather excited by the discoveries that AI would translate medieval Greek, I thought I&#8217;d try another attempt at that Ge`ez text that I put into Google Translate <a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/tag\/amharic\/\">some time back<\/a>.\u00a0 That is a homily on St Garima by a certain bishop John.\u00a0 I found the text on my disk, and put a paragraph into Bard AI.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t play.\u00a0 Then I tried ChatGPT 3.5.\u00a0 That churned out the Nicene Creed, as a supposed translation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">You can&#8217;t trust AI.\u00a0 It can and will generate garbage.\u00a0 You have to be able to check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather excited by the discoveries that AI would translate medieval Greek, I thought I&#8217;d try another attempt at that Ge`ez text that I put into Google Translate some time back.\u00a0 That is a homily on St Garima by a certain bishop John.\u00a0 I found the text on my disk, and put a paragraph into Bard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[126,155],"class_list":["post-48014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-ai-translation","tag-amharic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}