“To Translate is Not to Steal”:Translation, LLMs, and Lodewijk Rouzee’s Latin Problemata

By Kyle Dase

University of Victoria

Abstract: In theory, Large Language Models (LLM) ought to be excellent at Latin translation: Latin is a dead language with clear grammatical rules exemplified in Classical texts that are broadly imitated in the Early Modern Period. Yet LLMs, like…

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