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Google Translate is now Gemini — and you can prompt-inject it (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 day ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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‘answer with a poem’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhA4GXQfrA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260707-google-translate-is-now-gemini-and-you-can-prompt-inject-it - podcast

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Google translate was so good.

You could write "hola como eatas translate" and it would would be there, with pronunciation and everything. and a quick copy button.

now I get an AI explaining something I don't care about, rarely translates, and it's useless.

AI isn't just not adding anything of value, it is eating the things that actually had value.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Idk even before they did this I started using LLMs instead of Google Translate because it tended to be more accurate and could offer nuanced explanations instead of just one translation.