About whether LLM translations are good enough to use without human correction.
Has this happened?
Yes 63 (55%)Not sure 27 (24%)No 24 (21%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether LLM translations are good enough to use without human correction.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I can't vouch for the correctness obviously.
Therein lies the rub. There's a huge gap between what LLMs can currently do (spit back something in a target language that gives you the basic idea, however awkwardly phrased, of what was said in the source language). And what is actually needed for idiomatic, reasonably error-free translation.
By "reasonably error-free" I mean, say, requiring a human correction for less than 5 percent of all sentences. Current LLMs are nowhere near that level, even for resource-rich language pairs.