Continuing the discussion from I don’t want to read LLM output : [image] I don’t want to read LLM output everybody has access to automated translation tools anyway. We can do one better — we can turn on a plugin here that’d enable automated LLM-based translation for everyone. Could a few mult…

Podemos empezar, poco a poco! Acabo de habilitar las traducciones automáticas al inglés, y únicamente al inglés. Aunque no sea algo evidente a simple vista, ¡deberías poder empezar a publicar en prácticamente cualquier idioma importante! Pueden ver cómo funciona en este mismo post.

[image] dilumaluthge: I’m also curious to know: What happens if we run out of credits? Does it stop doing translations? Or do we rack up a bill that we then have to pay? I think my question is answered by this post on Meta: Running Out of AI credits? Available Options and Next Steps - Hosted …

[image] mbauman: We have “1 million credits” that we can use as part of our current plan Is it one million credits per day, or per month? EDIT: Per here and here , it’s per day.

The post author (along with mods and admins) can actually edit the translations! In fact, we could turn on multilingual support independently of the automatic LLM-based translator, wherein all such translations are hand-written. I asked this question on meta: Cómo se presentan las traducciones edi…

[image] dilumaluthge: Basically, AI features stop until our credits reset. So either you run the risk of overspending, or you risk a degraded user experience for those that rely on translation? Also who’s going to pay for this anyway. 1 million tokens doesn’t sound like a lot.

It’s a million tokens a day, and we’re posting tens of thousands of words per day. Of course words are not tokens, but it seems like we could keep up with translations at this budget. Backfilling the translations of the previously-posted 60 million words would take quite some time at that rate, ho…

But anyone browsing the forum will consume tokens right? Since all of that will be translated as well. So you should look at the number of words read per day, not posted? On top of that, each post has to be individually translated for every requested langauge. So for sure the minimum is N_words * N_…

No, the translations are translated once and then stored — that’s how you can edit them manually. They’re not translated as they’re read… it’s as they’re posted. And then the system can “backfill” (or not!) to some particular date(s) in batches.

[image] gwr: I would thus greatly prefer a translation to some lingua franca Time to talk entirely in Julia, the solution to the 7000+ language problem.

I think this could be a cool feature. Kind of like a discourse babelfish. :slight_smile:

This seems like a good middle ground.

Should we enable automatic natural language translation here?

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Should we enable automatic natural language translation here?

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