Adding extra polish like nonsense phrases. Nobody is supervising it then.
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adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days agoIn some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.
Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Sure, and I’m sympathetic to the baffling difficulties of English, but use Google Translate and ask someone who’s more fluent for help with the final polish (as a single suggestion). Trusting your work, trusting science to an LLM is lunacy.
Saleh@feddit.org 3 days ago
Google translate is an LLM.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Check the results though. Google translate is far far better at translation than a generic LLM.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It might be hard for them to find someone who is both fluent in english AND knows the field well enough to know vegetative electron microscopy is not a thing. Most universities have one general translation help service and science has a lot of field-specific weird terms.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s why he said start with Google Translate. Because Google Translate isn’t giving gibberish like vegetative electron microscopy.