[bbg2401]

> because the naive way an LLM translates slathers its own style on top of the translation rather than being a more faithful translation.

If you're sincere then I'm afraid you're being led on by the lazy.

When tasked with translating a document, unless instructed otherwise, the LLM does not inject its own cliched stories, narrative structures and assorted engagement tricks.

[jerf]

Of course not. What it does seem to do is inject its grammar, style, and propensity for certain constructs that cause people to flag it as "AI" in their brain.

It's possible they're all lying. It's very unlikely that zero of them are lying, as I happen to be in a place where I get exposed to this, so I've seen it a lot. But I've seen it an awful lot for it all to be liars.

Unfortunately, I don't speak a foreign language fluently enough to test it myself. I have some I can kind of verify that the translation is literally accurate but I don't have any second language I could do a style translation for.