I see a lot of feeds in other languages that I don’t know (I are a merican so i just know the two - baseball and cursing.). But I’d be very interested if there was some kind of babelfish auto-translation for the other posts so I could see what they were about - does anything like that exist or is there any known effort underway to make one?

As it is, I get conflicted between blocking them because I never understand them, or just scrolling by them all. Yes, I should learn German, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, and that one they talk in the Britishal Kingdom or whatever, it’s, uh, like it’s on the to-do list but, like, in the meantime . . . ?

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      Yeah, I just wanted to “see them all” so to speak, thinking the language setting could be an input for auto-translation

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        4 months ago

        it can be done via chatgpt etc but would have to be implemented by a client app and likely would have a cost so enough people would have to be willing to pay for it.

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          An 8 GB memory VPS should be sufficient to run quantised LLMs, and the client could simply parse the Lemmy posts, send them to the server and get the translated results back. Shouldn’t be expensive imho.

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            its not expensive, the chatgpt tokens are pennies… but its not free. if you volunteer to host and support it for free, let your favorite client apps know!

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              I know it was just an example but is there an actual advantage in using chatgpt over a translation service, say DeepL?