alt.hn

3/19/2026 at 12:28:47 PM

Top AI models underperform in languages other than English

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/03/18/top-ai-models-underperform-in-languages-other-than-english

by Brajeshwar

3/19/2026 at 5:25:22 PM

My personal and subjective experience is that English is usually better than Spanish (my native language). Unless I'm asking something specific about Spain such as laws, history, etc. I always use LLMs in English.

by unclejuan

3/19/2026 at 2:31:52 PM

I hear a lot from people around me, Koreans, that LLMs are mostly underwhelming. These days I hear that less and less, but what I recommend is to use English.

A simple array of English words is often better than a full, well-written Korean sentence(s).

by zipping1549

3/19/2026 at 3:10:11 PM

Most of my italian friends, prompt in Italian and they claim no degradation.

Are there some hard numbers on the latest models?

by epolanski

3/19/2026 at 3:49:10 PM

2 paragraph article estimates at 6 minutes read?

Am I not seeing most of the article?

On the content: speakers of a single language don’t realise this is the case, although they’ve always known that non-English countries tend to get worse service in general in software (like Siri voice, or speech recognition (and if you speak a minority language of your country, even worse), map services, or sometimes just the LLM answering with US customary units that you don’t understand nor expect, etc.)

by jiehong

3/19/2026 at 6:10:01 PM

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