🧵ChatGPT is all the rage nowadays, so I took some time during the holidays to experiment with it - here's a short thread on my findings to help you in your #l10n endeavors:
Rephrasing: This is by far the most useful use case I've found. Whenever I get stuck on a sentence that sounds clunky, I just chuck it in there and bounce ideas. It seems to work with many languages, but English should get the best results due to its larger datasets. 
It also goes beyond a simple "writing assistant" - have you ever had to translate a rhyme but just can't find the right words? As it turns out, ChatGPT is rather good at that, to the point where it can spit out entire poems/songs on any given topic.
Regex helper: Regex can be rather daunting if you're not used to it, and yet, it's a key component of #gameloc to efficiently tag out code elements. If you're looking for a quick and easy way to isolate those elements, all you need to do is ask.
Code is one of ChatGPT's strong suits, so it comes as no surprise that this is where you'll get the best results. Better yet, it can explain *why* code works a certain way and adapt it as you feed it more information.
Now, some industry actors are already frothing at the mouth at the idea of "revolutionizing" translation through AI, but based on my (very surface) research, this claim couldn't be further from the truth: As with every other tool, ChatGPT is not a be-all-end-all...
... It can't translate for you. It can't find the right "feel" for you. But it can help you find ideas, and it's worth trying if your real human colleagues are unavailable. If you have found other uses for it, I'd love to hear about it!
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