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by flykespice 105 days ago
Is it possible for AIs in the future catch up those gags and meta humor in the language? Could the translation team have done a better job prompting the AI with the current technology?

Afaik japanese media (manga) abuse alot the use of puns on its language due to the amount of homonyms on it.

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This stuff is really hard to translate. Imagine asking someone to translate 4chan into Japanese. This is ultra-S-tier hard translations. My goal in learning Japanese is the ability to read this kind of in-joke niche sub-culture slang. I'd love to read the original Densha Otoko posts from 2ch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densha_Otoko

Avante-garde will always be lost on an inferential technology because to 'get it' it needs to be trained on sufficient volumes.

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Edit: I may not exactly be spitting pearls, but passive downvoting for a genuine take on the matter based on professional experience in AI is a canary gasping for oxygen.

ai translations of japanese still miss the point and screw up / hallucinate articles and subjects between passages (switching genders, for instance, 3 times in one paragraph)