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What do you consider an ”AI free” translator? Most, if not all, machine translators rely on some machine learning model.
Second this. Dealing with human language is one of the few proper reasons to use machine learning, deep learning and neural somethings. As we can't just transcribe words one by one. That just leads to very weird results no one is able to understand. I think we had rule-based systems and fairly simplistic statistics in the early days of computing. But every sane choice you'd actually want to use, leverages some form of machine learning and "AI". DeepL does that, Google Translate, LibreTranslate, Mozilla...
That doesn't however mean all the products are the same. There's some blurry lines(?) where things turn into generative AI. But I'm not aware of any usable machine translation that doesn't use some form of AI to figure out context, grammar, idioms, sentence structure and weird things like identical words which have more than one meaning.
Hi! Thank you for your comment.
You are right in what you said; I should've phrased my question better. What I meant was that I didn't want the ChatGPT-like generative AI kind of thing that tends to hallucinate included in my translation solution of choice. I had just visited the Reverso website prior to writing this post and it was all like AI this, and AI that, and, frankly, it's gotten to the point where it is simply fatiguing to have those two letters shovelled up my throat permanently wherever I go.
So, yeah, I of course wouldn't mind my translator to keep using the kind of technology that makes translators function, but do despise the slop they are trying so hard for us to accept.
I have downloaded, but have not tried yet, Dialect on my computer, and am still looking for a solution for my phone.
Thanks again.