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Way back in the GPT 3.5 days, I used ChatGPT to translate my plain text of a character's dialogue to Jamaican patois.
I was a bit embarrassed when, about a year later, an actual Jamaican reader read my novel and left a comment exclaiming how surprised he was regarding the authenticity of the Jamaican slang used. Far too rare on the internet, and almost never so well, he told me, and asked if I asked a Jamaican speaker. I told him that I'd done my "research", which was half-true. Well, I guess it worked as intended.
Here it's more uncanny valley stuff imo. The correct words are used but it comes off as a status insecure under/working class person studying up before going to the best restaurant in town, trying to impress their boss/date/family with words they learned an hour ago. Its barely a step up from ordering "your most expensive wine".
This is of course fine when that is what's literally happening in the story but it rarely if ever is.
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