Huh. This article is about the issue of picking which translation of a word to use according to what the word means in context... a task that LLMs should ace.

I was hoping this was about using an LLM to produce text in the house style. That's also a task they should be good at, but that clearly doesn't happen by default.

Here's a two-page public announcement from Ironhide Games, who make Kingdom Rush. They're apologizing over a direction they chose for the upcoming 6th game in the series:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/524968371494846484/15...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/524968371494846484/15...

To me the main message is twofold:

- "People complained, and we're going in a different direction."

- "We had this translated from Spanish by an LLM."

The 11 paragraphs of text are superfluous, because... (1) anything you could learn from them you could also learn from the two-bullet-point summary on the second page; and (2) the text style clearly doesn't reflect anything that the spokesperson for Ironhide Games wrote. This is a document written specifically to prevent any information from coming through other than the two bullet points in the summary.

And that's a style that companies often invoke on purpose. PR statements are vetted for this kind of thing, which is why everyone hates them. But it appears to be the only style that LLMs want to produce, whether they're making a PR statement or not, and I feel sure that almost none of the people using them for translations actually want this.

I also feel sure that the "LLM style" is specifically intended by the LLM providers, and that it wouldn't exist if they didn't spend enormous effort causing it to.