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I wonder if an LLM can "translate" that book into... something. And if so, how faithful to the original is the translation?

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> I wonder if an LLM can "translate" that book into... something.

Yes, of course. LLMs are bullshit machines.

> And if so, how faithful to the original is the translation?

Well, as faithful as total bullshit ever is.

What? Can we start banning these kinds of "I wonder if an LLM" comments?

I actually thought it was an interesting thought, if the "bullshitness" will hold between "translations" or if it will hallucinate something which "makes more sense" than the original. Or if it will just refuse because the chinese letters just aren't close enough. I'm probably too bored. :)

You cannot extract a signal that isn't there.

There's also a technical side to that problem - you can't communicate the content of that book to a LLM as text, because it's made up of invented characters. There's no standard way to represent them to a computer.

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