Comment by schoen
2 years ago
To what extent do you encounter hallucinations of foreign-language grammar (or vocabulary)? It looks like one person here is complaining that the application has hallucinated a non-existent verb form in one context.
That would be my biggest fear about using a language model for foreign language study ... being taught something wrong or significantly unidiomatic (perhaps by example), and then having to unlearn it later on.
It would be surprising to me if it consistently made this error. It may well correct you (and contradict itself) if you later used the word incorrectly. A human tutor might be less likely to make a mistake, but they would probably also get it wrong more consistently if they did.
As usual with language models, I think the key is to learn to live with their limitations as well as their strengths.