Strange reply about AI, continued:
> in this sense what people do with LLMs is not meaningfully different from translation, in fact it is all translation between idiolects and sociolects, colloquial dialects and prestige dialects. there's no linguistically sound distinction between these forms of translation.
(ok, now to refute it)
My reply:
The AI doesn't have access to your internal thoughts to translate from.
If I ask an AI to translate a book, but I keep the book closed, and it can only look at the cover, it can't translate it unless it already knows its contents.
It can guess, but that's not the same.
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