[jrflowers]

>I used OpenAI to do the translation which looks pretty good for me, with the caveat that... well... I do not know Latin

OpenAI also does not know Latin. This is either a tool to troll people that can read Latin or a tool to help people “learn” a made up vaguely Latin-shaped set of gibberish that ChatGPT nondeterministically generated. This only works for a definition of “Latin” that is a sort of vibe wholly detached from structure, syntax, or vocabulary.

[rahimnathwani]

  vaguely Latin-shaped set of gibberish that ChatGPT nondeterministically generated

OP hadn't used AI to generate Latin, but to generate English.

[jrflowers]

It doesn’t matter which set of text you generate with ChatGPT in this case. Using it in either makes the output useless as a tool to learn anything about both sets of text. This issue is compounded further when, as the OP readily admits, there is no quality check involved (OP does not know Latin)

[rahimnathwani]

  Using it in either makes the output useless as a tool to learn anything about both sets of text

OP is using it as a tool to improve their comprehension of Latin. The tool shows a word by word translation, which is jarring to read linearly, but works well for filling in gaps.

It's far from useless as an aid to comprehend the Latin text.

It's been over thirty years since I last studied Latin, but I still remember enough to be able to tell that this tool would be useful for a learner, even without perfect accuracy.

[dmd]

I do know Latin (quite well), and gpt-4o does an extremely good job at translating from English to Latin and vice versa.

[nescioquid]

Note how one opinion provides the warrant for the other.

[empath75]

You're severely overstating the case here, as if it just produces random text like a markov generator or something.