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by hyperman1 1001 days ago
I was served the Dutch translation, and I must say I am impressed with the state of the art of this machine translation. While this still feels mechanically translated English, and accents are missing, it was very readable. I am used to having to translate each individual word to English and swap some verbs to end up with something readable -- with the regular paragraph of total gibberish in between. This reads like at least a high school student's homework.
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Valve uses human translators, not ML. So unless you're talking about your browser's auto-translation feature, you are, in fact, reading human-produced text.
This one is in the uncanny zone. If it comes from AI, I salute the AI. If human, I'd advise Valve to find better Humans.
Do they? I got the dutch version as well, and it's full of english sentences translated word-by-word.