Over the last six months, me and friend tried to automate German comedy. It’s a long read, but I thought it deserved a proper write-up because, instead of just speculating about AI in business, we actually built it… questions very welcome!
> German is not English with umlauts (sic). This sounds obvious, but the gap between English and German-language model performance is a fundamental problem.
This is absolutely what I despise about people who post LLM slop in German, especially the parts where it’s trying to be funny. That does sonot translate into German. This is about to become a serious issue as LLM usage keeps rising. It’s entirely missing in public debate.
As written, at least for us, this already IS a serious issue. I think there is simply not enough German-language AI projects yet, and so we Germans prefer to discuss real pressing matters such as the 'Pendlerpauschale'… o.O
Over the last six months, me and friend tried to automate German comedy. It’s a long read, but I thought it deserved a proper write-up because, instead of just speculating about AI in business, we actually built it… questions very welcome!
> German is not English with umlauts (sic). This sounds obvious, but the gap between English and German-language model performance is a fundamental problem.
This is absolutely what I despise about people who post LLM slop in German, especially the parts where it’s trying to be funny. That does so not translate into German. This is about to become a serious issue as LLM usage keeps rising. It’s entirely missing in public debate.
As written, at least for us, this already IS a serious issue. I think there is simply not enough German-language AI projects yet, and so we Germans prefer to discuss real pressing matters such as the 'Pendlerpauschale'… o.O