[isntThatSth]

Machine-created translations are bad. They've become better over time, but they're still bad. If you've ever tried having your native language butchered in the way that machine-created translations butcher my native language on the daily, you'd understand why. I suspect a lot of the push for machine translations comes from monolingual developers in Silicon Valley.

[solardev]

Machine translations aren't all made equal though. The LLM ones, especially ChatGPT, are many times better than older systems. They are better writers and translators (of major common languages) than most humans I know... by far.

[jotjotzzz]

I think it does it reasonably well for some major languages. What languages are you referring to here?

[stevekemp]

Finnish is a good example of a language where online translations tend to be .. subpar.