Doesn’t seem to be a translation artefact, partly because the English version also has some parts flagged as AI-written, and partly because as I say in the post:
Are you worried that this is somehow the fault of machine translation of human-composed text? I tried using Claude, a prominent LLM product, to translate some old encyclicals, and the results were flagged by Pangram as human-generated.
Re: the language of the original, these things get written by big teams, and most people on the teams are not native English speakers. See my thread with Anna Salmon for discussion on this point: my conclusion from the linked evidence is that Italian is indeed the most likely drafting language (as IIUC it is the working language of the Vatican) but Spanish is also possible.
Doesn’t seem to be a translation artefact, partly because the English version also has some parts flagged as AI-written, and partly because as I say in the post:
Re: the language of the original, these things get written by big teams, and most people on the teams are not native English speakers. See my thread with Anna Salmon for discussion on this point: my conclusion from the linked evidence is that Italian is indeed the most likely drafting language (as IIUC it is the working language of the Vatican) but Spanish is also possible.