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Google Translate hallucinates as well.

It’s particularly obvious if you translate between languages with vastly different grammar, e.g. Korean -> English, since Korean doesn’t require a subject per sentence but English does – so Google Translate then sometimes just inserts random subjects from its training data into the translated text. ChatGPT, by understanding more of the context before each sentence in a long text, seems to do this less.

For stuff like French -> English or German -> English where there is “no missing info” per sentence to create grammatically correct sentences, so that it doesn’t need to rely on context to translate correctly, Google Translate is great.