Compared to who? Compared to a professional with a language degree, with a feel and love for both languages and an understanding of the subject area, LLM translation is shit, no question. But such professionals don't get hired by startups to localize their websites, too expensive. When comparing to paid- by-the-word contractors who do website localization, I am not so sure that LLM is worse - because in practice too many biologically-human-localized websites and apps are translated horrifically.
Compared to who? Compared to a professional with a language degree, with a feel and love for both languages and an understanding of the subject area, LLM translation is shit, no question. But such professionals don't get hired by startups to localize their websites, too expensive. When comparing to paid- by-the-word contractors who do website localization, I am not so sure that LLM is worse - because in practice too many biologically-human-localized websites and apps are translated horrifically.