Mod note (for other readers): I think this is a good example of acceptable use of LLMs for translation purposes. The comment reads to me[1] like it was written by a human and then translated fairly literally, without performing edits that would make it sound unfortunately LLM-like (perhaps with the exception of the em-dashes).
“Written entirely by you, a human” and “translated literally, without any additional editing performed by the LLM” are the two desiderata, which, if fulfilled, I will usually consider sufficient to screen off the fact that the words technically came out of an LLM[2]. (If you do this, I strongly recommend using a reasoning model, which is much less likely to end up rewriting your comment in its own style. Also, I appreciate the disclaimer. I don’t know if I’d want it present in every single comment; the first time seems good and maybe having one in one’s profile after that is sufficient? Needs some more thought.) This might sometimes prove insufficient, but I don’t expect people honestly trying and failing at achieving good outcomes here to substantially increase our moderation burden.
Mod note (for other readers): I think this is a good example of acceptable use of LLMs for translation purposes. The comment reads to me[1] like it was written by a human and then translated fairly literally, without performing edits that would make it sound unfortunately LLM-like (perhaps with the exception of the em-dashes).
“Written entirely by you, a human” and “translated literally, without any additional editing performed by the LLM” are the two desiderata, which, if fulfilled, I will usually consider sufficient to screen off the fact that the words technically came out of an LLM[2]. (If you do this, I strongly recommend using a reasoning model, which is much less likely to end up rewriting your comment in its own style. Also, I appreciate the disclaimer. I don’t know if I’d want it present in every single comment; the first time seems good and maybe having one in one’s profile after that is sufficient? Needs some more thought.) This might sometimes prove insufficient, but I don’t expect people honestly trying and failing at achieving good outcomes here to substantially increase our moderation burden.
With the caveat that I only read the first few paragraphs closely and poked intermittently at the rest.
This doesn’t mean the comment will necessarily be approved, but if I reject it, it probably won’t be for that reason.