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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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I mainly use it for Spanish which I have a basic proficiency in. It just accompanies me on my learning journey. It may be wrong sometime but not often. Like the other reply said, LLMs are good at languages, it's what they were originally designed for until people found out they could do more (but not quite as well).
And as for filtering, I just use it as a news feed sanitizer with a whole bunch of rules. It will miss things sometimes but it's also my ruleset that's not perfect. I often come across the unfiltered sources anyway and even if it misses something, it's only news. Nothing really important to me.
It's funny, I had half been avoiding it for languages. I had lots of foreign friends and they often lived together in houses and those houses would almost have this creole. They came to learn English and were reinforcing their own mistakes but it was mutually intelligible so the mistakes were reinforced and not caught. I suspect LLMs would be amazing at doing that to people and their main use case along these lines seems like it would be to practice at a slightly higher level than you so I suspect some of those errors would be hard to catch / really easy to take as correct instead of validating
Anyone learning a new language massively benefits from being able to speak with native speakers.
That being said, LLMs are better at languages and translation tasks than any pretty much anything else. If you need vocabulary help or have difficulty with grammar they're incredibly helpful (vs Googling and hoping someone had the same issue and posted about it on Reddit).
I mean, if you can afford a native speaker tutor that is the superior choice. But, for the average person, an LLM is a massive improvement over trying to learn via YouTube or apps.
And the problem with Reddit--especially with certain language communities--is you'll get a hallucination rate higher than current LLMs because learners can either overestimate their knowledge or sound off just because they want to show off.
I don't recommend LLM use for beginners at languages but once they get a semester or two (or the equivalent) under their belt, the instant access to an answer that's right most of the time is invaluable. Just first get to the point where you can start to recognize "maybe that's not quite right..." first, and check sources. And definitely check in with natives as much as possible.
I don't think that's a problem. I live in Spain and speak Spanish daily with real people, many of them my friends. They'll correct me if needed, they often do. Though most are my own mistakes.
Don't forget people give wrong answers too. But people aren't available 24/7 to help me.