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Can GPT-4 translate literature?
Tom Gally

Tom Gally, a former professional translator and University of Tokyo professor, discusses in March 2023 whether GPT-4 and similar models could translate literary and popular fiction. He gives his assessment of Japanese-to-English quality.
Cited as an expert's first-hand evidence that GPT translation is near human quality for distant language pairs.
4 Hacker News mentions · 2023–2025