Actually, let's use an example to show why the dictionary wasn't good enough even before the internet and people often relied on family, friends, and workers to aide them in even written communication.

I want to write the phrase "I love cheese." in Japanese. Dictionaries can't look up whole sentences. You have to use them word for word. That's true even in online dictionaries to this day.

Here's a very popular Japanese-English dictionary site, for example.

Okay, that's fine. I'll just look up each word.

So according to the top entries in the dictionary this would be expressed as 私愛チーズ.

That is not correct. If you said this, people would have to really struggle to parse out what you mean. The words are not in the correct order (but I wouldn't know that if I didn't speak Japanese). And the use of 愛 for love would make it sound like I want to marry my cheese. Not good! These kinds of errors are common for people trying to rely on a dictionary with no knowledge at all of a language. This is why language lessons and translators have been historically so important even when people understood very well that dictionaries existed.

Direct/straight translation can also miss this kind of nuance. Which is another reason that historically having a person who understands the language has been so vital to human communication when translation is needed. Here I have asked Google translate to double check if I wrote this correctly and it okays it.

Now let's look at what AI has to say about this attempt when I ask if this is a natural way to say it.

I only speak a little Japanese, but I think the 2nd one doesn't sound particularly natural. I'm sure a Japanese native speaker could tell me if I'm wrong about that or not. But everything else very much conforms to what I was taught. So, we can see that AI is still inferior to a human but better than trying to go it alone with a dictionary or use older online translation tools.

Is it any wonder that people prefer AI for translation in particular (eta: or why Google and Microsoft integrated into their translation tools)? I am not saying that I love AI. On the contrary, there are a number of ethical considerations that we need to take into account, and I think our legislators should be acting faster to impose strict guidelines on them in terms of usage, environmental impact, etc. I don't think that AI should replace human beings and one needs only look at how disastrous AI art has been to understand why. But AI is a tool. And like any tool, there are also ethical use cases and improving the translation software laypeople use is one of them imo. I also personally think it is ethical to use it as an accessibility tool for people who may have cognitive issues and things of that nature.

I don't think that the forums should ban it, but I do think a disclaimer that AI used as an assistant should be placed on the posts by people who use it. It's their own right not to but I think that's the only fair thing to do.

AI and language barriers are both multilayered, complex issues that I think are done a disservice by trying to have strict "never use ever under any circumstances," policy, in my personal opinion.

Tra_Lalan wrote: »

Imagine a bot in zone chat asks for help with a WB. Would you help him?

If they're sharing the quest I will.

Guess there's a distinction between ai used to make writer's thought process more digestible for readers when user is typing in their second or third language and "I asked ai and ESO related question so read what chatgpt gave me, yay" crap.

AI is everywhere and it's not going away. Learning to accept it and use it wisely is the best thing that we can do.

SilverBride wrote: »

AI is everywhere and it's not going away. Learning to accept it and use it wisely is the best thing that we can do.

Nonsense. If nobody uses it, it will absolutely go away.

cyclonus11 wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

AI is everywhere and it's not going away. Learning to accept it and use it wisely is the best thing that we can do.

Nonsense. If nobody uses it, it will absolutely go away.

NASA uses AI.

for them saying it should be ban ,,,, should all add-ons be ban too they are just helpful tools right