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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

In my experience, LLMs aren't really that good at summarizing

It's more like they can "rewrite more concisely" which is a bit different

[–] Droggelbecher 20 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I used to play this game with Google translate when it was newish

[–] toynbee 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There is, or maybe was, a YouTube channel that would run well known song lyrics through various layers of translation, then attempt to sing the result to the tune of the original.

[–] Whelks_chance 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gradually watermelon... I like shapes.

Twisted translations

[–] toynbee 4 points 3 days ago

Sounds about right to me.

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