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by gerdemb 678 days ago
Very cool! I've transitioned from using Google Translate and DeepL to ChatGPT for translations. In general I think the ChatGPT translations are better, but the default UI for is a little tedious. Looks like your tool solves this problem.

I tried translating some Japanese, but the result is not correct.

兄や弟さえも憎むようになりました.

I have come to hate even my brothers and sisters.

It should be "I have come to hate even my older brother and younger brother."

Are you using ChatGPT 3.5? I've found that you need to use version 4 to get quality translations as 3.5 makes a lot of mistakes.

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Thanks for your feedback!

Yes, we're using ChatGPT 3.5 for now and we will certainly switch to GPT-4o mini in the near future. It already works with ChatGPT 4 but we noticed that the cost increase was not worth the minor improvement of quality.

I tried your example with ChatGPT 4 and it's somewhat better but not perfect: "I've even come to hate my brother and younger brother."

We hope that the quality will improve with the cheapest (and also fastest) models available.