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Yo, check this out! DeepL is like way better than Google Translate, so you should totally use it. But, GPT-4 is like a game-changer, dude! It's obvi way better than DeepL, and it can do all sorts of stuff like rewording, explaining in detail, and changing up the style. This text was translated from Japanese to gamer-style English by ChatGPT-4, no joke!

This passes for “gamer-style” English?

I had to read GP twice, plus your comment to realise it might been generated by a GPT-ish service. Damn, this stuff is getting good.

For something machine translated from Japanese? Yes, it's astonishing, actually.

LLMs are better at context - as far as I can tell Google Translate only does one sentence at a time.

With GPT-3 it infers things like gender and formality from earlier context.

Not clear yet how good GPT-4 is as OpenAI won’t say what training data it has, even rough volumes, in each human language.

Needs some thorough research testing it.

DeepL [1] usually does better in my experience, but I suspect Google Translate has gotten better since last time I used it.

[1] www.deepl.com