{"id":9109,"date":"2023-02-27T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T07:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/how-chatgpt-mangled-the-language-of-heaven-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T07:37:45","slug":"how-chatgpt-mangled-the-language-of-heaven-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/how-chatgpt-mangled-the-language-of-heaven-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"How ChatGPT mangled the language of heaven | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to generate a story from an English translation of a letter in Welsh published in the Guardian, the AI chatbot came up with a lot of twaddle, reports <strong>Fiona Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Watson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2023\/feb\/17\/prosecco-porridge-is-an-experiment-we-dont-need\" title=\"\">Letters, 17 February<\/a>) asks for a translation of my letter in Welsh (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/feb\/13\/finally-getting-the-measure-of-the-north\" title=\"\">13 February<\/a>). I did include an English translation in my letter, but only the Welsh was published. I sent a second letter asking the Guardian to publish the translation, as I was having a lot of stick from a certain friend who couldn\u2019t read it, but with no luck. Hopefully Ian\u2019s letter will change the letters editor\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p>The English version was as follows: \u201cThank you very much for the excellent editorial article which sang the praises of the Welsh language \u2026 Since you are now so enthusiastic about Welsh, may I, from now on, write to you in the language of heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/feb\/26\/how-chatgpt-mangled-the-language-of-heaven\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8f99c42947da748d86cc6cc4147bc2aa102f10d8\/0_197_6033_3619\/master\/6033.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bf293da5f239d4a325230569021d320f\" title=\"How ChatGPT mangled the language of heaven | Letter\" \/>Asked to generate a story from an English translation of a letter in Welsh published in the Guardian, the AI chatbot came up with a lot of twaddle, reports Fiona Collins<br \/>\nIan Watson (Letters, 17 February) asks for a translation of my letter in Welsh (13 February). I did include an English translation in my letter, but only the Welsh was published. I sent a second letter asking the Guardian to publish the translation, as I was having a lot of stick from a certain friend who couldn\u2019t read it, but with no luck. Hopefully Ian\u2019s letter will change the letters editor\u2019s mind.<br \/>\nThe English version was as follows: \u201cThank you very much for the excellent editorial article which sang the praises of the Welsh language \u2026 Since you are now so enthusiastic about Welsh, may I, from now on, write to you in the language of heaven?\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to generate a story from an English translation of a letter in Welsh published in the Guardian, the AI chatbot came up with a lot of twaddle, reports Fiona Collins Ian Watson (Letters, 17 February) asks for a translation of my letter in Welsh (13 February). I did include an English translation in my &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/how-chatgpt-mangled-the-language-of-heaven-letter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How ChatGPT mangled the language of heaven | Letter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}