• Szewek@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I have a DeepL plug-in in my browser and a DeepL app. I highlight text, and press to translate. This is great if you want to learn a language (I compare my understanding of a sequence with the translation, check what the one word I didn’t understand meant, etc.)

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    6 days ago

    Love DeepL. May make some of the same mistakes by doing more literal translations (like every other service does) for things like names of people/games (from what I’ve tested with Japanese), but is still decent overall.

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    6 days ago

    I really want to make the complete switch to DeepL instead of Google Translate, but I can’t figure out how to setup the URL for auto detecting language.
    With https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=SEARCHTERM whatever word or sentence I input, it uses the “Detect language” option, which I know that DeepL has as an option for too. But I can’t figure out what keyword to put in the DeepL url, for it to use the Detect Language option.
    Here’s English to Spanish: https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#en/es/SEARCHTERM

    Hopefully I’m just missing something obvious due to having been down with the flu this past week.

    EDIT - Also putting this here, from my later reply, for visibility:
    Looks like the parameter used to be xx, but that it’s been broken for some time now, if this exchange in January on stackoverflow.com is to be believed. Or the parameter was . and/or auto, according to this Reddit thread back in November, where they also talk about it being broken.

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    7 days ago

    Counterpoint: openAI loses money on every ChatGPT search so using them is actually damaging them.

    Counterpoint 2: AI sucks and no one should use it.

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      AI is great if you use it the right way. When writing at work, I usually ask for a template or a structure. That way I skip the basic stuff and have some scaffolding to iterate on. It removes the blank page. I love it.

  • Szewek@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I’ve heard DeepL Write can replace Grammarly. Has anybody checked it?