Translationese is a birth defect of frontier LLMs writing Indonesian prose
eriksupit · x · 2026-09-17
An Indonesian writer argues that frontier LLMs consistently produce awkward literary Indonesian prose: stilted tone, overwrought emotion, and misplaced poetic phrases. He calls this 'translationese' a built-in defect of frontier models in low-resource literary writing.
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