I am seeing this on the OpenStreetMap forums, which are an international affair, and it really annoys me. We get well-meaning mappers who join a thread in a language not their own (in case something is discussed within a national community) using LLM-translated posts.
For Dutch, this is extremely annoying¹. It's not that you can't translate to and from Dutch, it's that you will not pick up the nuances in the text written by people with a decent proficiency in Dutch (like the way written and spoken Dutch can be really rather direct, which can translate to quite impolite English, and really improper German), and technical and domain-specific content (e.g., traffic regulations) gets butchered.
I much rather see someone responding to a Dutch thread do so in English if they can't write Dutch, because then at least I can see if the translation from Dutch is going wrong somewhere, instead of having to figure out why that person isn't making sense by going through two passes of an LLM… Been there, done that. Besides, if I'm replying I can do so in English too, and avoid having LLMs mangle my words.
So yes, I too abhor having to deal with any form of communication where an LLM sits between the other person and myself. I find it exceedingly rude.
1: For other languages too, but as a native Dutch speaker this one is easy for me to see.
For Dutch, this is extremely annoying¹. It's not that you can't translate to and from Dutch, it's that you will not pick up the nuances in the text written by people with a decent proficiency in Dutch (like the way written and spoken Dutch can be really rather direct, which can translate to quite impolite English, and really improper German), and technical and domain-specific content (e.g., traffic regulations) gets butchered.
I much rather see someone responding to a Dutch thread do so in English if they can't write Dutch, because then at least I can see if the translation from Dutch is going wrong somewhere, instead of having to figure out why that person isn't making sense by going through two passes of an LLM… Been there, done that. Besides, if I'm replying I can do so in English too, and avoid having LLMs mangle my words.
So yes, I too abhor having to deal with any form of communication where an LLM sits between the other person and myself. I find it exceedingly rude.
1: For other languages too, but as a native Dutch speaker this one is easy for me to see.