this reminds me how in the late aughts russian government tried to create some national, lib-free wikipedia version so what they did was rip entirety of wikipedia, deleted some articles and then search-replaced "wiki" with their name in the entire corpus. hilarity ensued within articles about vikings (most slavic languages only have single variant for v/w, except polish) and more.
Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
During the whole BLM thing a few years ago my emplyer wanted "to do something" I guess so they added one of those "inclusive language" SaaS buttons. This seems more plausible to me. "Bosom peril" is not in any way a synonym for cancer. But if you think 'cancer' as a word will trigger people then softening it with 'peril' makes sense.
You sure it isn't a euphemism for "heart attack"?
I thought it was booby trap
Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
#133Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”. “Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.” From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...
That reminds me of an anecdote that my high school English teacher used to tell, as a way of cautioning against use of thesauruses: some student substituted "flatus" for "wind" in their composition, writing something like "a gentle flatus was blowing from the bay".
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google Translate uses an LLM, last I heard.
Only since 2023.
WDYM? It used an encoder-decoder transformer model long before 2023 (and also long before decoder-only transformers à la GPT became the new standard).
Most people seem to believe LLM only describe these decoder-only architectures, but the term predate them by a big margin. BERT (encoder-only) was a large language model, and there were even language models before transformers were even a thing.
Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
#137Most of these are authored by what appear to be non-native English speakers. So, the most likely explanation is a translation issue. In engineering literature from Russia from the 1960s, one sometimes finds references to a ‘water goat’ in papers that are otherwise about heavy machinery. It turns out this is a twice-translated rendition of ‘hydraulic ram’.
All your base are belong to us.
Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
#138I'm a fan of "counterfeit consciousness": https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22c...
Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
This doesn‘t sound like AI. LLMs do not use dictionary definitions for translating a paper this way. It does look like some translation engine like Google Translate or worse, maybe with some text obfuscator trying to avoid plagiarism detection.
Google Translate uses an LLM, last I heard.
It switched very recently I think if at all. It was way worse at translations than Gemini even at the beginning of this year. Especially between a pair of languages other than English. It was mixing two completely different words that are the same in English.