I would very much like to use the browser's translaton feature but I do not understand why the browser's translation option has to depend on the "AI" features built into the browser given that translation methods have been available for a long time before LLMs and such existed. I will not enable the AI features just for the convenience of a translation tool, but I don't see why I should in the first place given AI isn't necessary.
I have been experimenting with AI from many different companies and I have found that it is shockingly bad and requires handholding to do what is asked of it, and it needs to be checked constantly for accuracy as it tends towards what people want rather than what is correct. People use it because it often gets it close. It's almost right, or kinda right and people who don't know better think that it did the job successfully and use the results. If however you double check the results you'll find key details wrong. Out of hundreds of tasks I have given AI, they have only done something correctly the first time three times, and even then when I repeat the task using the same successful prompts, it messes it up the second time, so it's not reliable in its results or its performance. A tool that can't be relied upon to do what it is supposed to is useless.
I don't trust that it will get it right, certainly not on a small local LLM when a large cloud based LLM screws up so badly on a regular basis, and I don't trust AI in general. At least for something that is so limited in function, I don't think it will compromise my security or privacy like other larger AI have. (Although given it has access to my browser activity... who knows?)
So I urge that a non-AI based translation option be made available, or ideally, the AI translation feature be abandoned entirely. In the mean time I will use Google's service instead as inconvenient as it may be. I would rather sacrifice some privacy if it means I don't have to host any AI models within my browser.
Thank you for your time.
