Day 55: Tuwim Fails the AI Test
In her grandmother's flat in Przemyśl, Emilka (A), a data analyst, checks whether a chatbot wrote the winning poem in the library's poetry competition for seniors, in which Grandma Wanda (B) came second.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Polish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Polish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
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A
Babciu, wkleiłam wiersz pana Mietka do detektora. Według programu dwie trzecie tekstu napisała sztuczna inteligencja.
Grandma, I've pasted Mr Mietek's poem into the detector. According to the program, two thirds of the text was written by artificial intelligence.
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B
A nie mówiłam? W maju rymował miłość ze zgniłością, a teraz pisze jak Staff. Pisz: „W związku z podejrzeniem oszustwa wnoszę o unieważnienie wyników”.
What did I tell you? In May he was rhyming love with rot, and now he writes like Leopold Staff. Take this down: 'In connection with suspected fraud, I request that the results be annulled.'
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A
Czekaj, najpierw próba kontrolna. Wklejam „Lokomotywę” Tuwima i proszę: według detektora trzy czwarte napisał czat.
Hang on, a control test first. I'm pasting in Tuwim's 'The Locomotive', and look: according to the detector, three quarters of it was written by a chatbot.
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B
Tuwim przed wojną korzystał z czatu? Czyli twój detektor jest głupi jak but. Ale skąd u Mietka nagle taka forma?
Tuwim used a chatbot before the war? So your detector's as thick as two short planks. But then where has Mietek's sudden form come from?
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A
Może z natchnienia. Przeczytaj pierwsze litery wersów, od góry.
Inspiration, maybe. Read the first letters of the lines, from the top.
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B
„Wandziu, kawusia?” Przecież to do mnie! Emilko, czy on mi się oświadcza wierszem?
'Wandzia, coffee?' Why, that's for me! Emilka, is he proposing to me in verse?
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A
Na razie zaprasza cię na kawę, babciu. Ale żaden czat nie schowałby w sonecie akrostychu dla zdobywczyni drugiego miejsca.
For now he's just asking you out for coffee, Grandma. But no chatbot would hide an acrostic in a sonnet for the runner-up.
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B
Półtora roku zapraszał mnie prozą i słyszał, że nie mam czasu. Wierszem poszło mu znacznie lepiej.
For a year and a half he asked me out in prose and was told I had no time. He's done much better in verse.
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A
To co z odwołaniem? Może w celu wyjaśnienia sprawy umówisz się z autorem na kawę?
So what about the appeal? Perhaps, for the purpose of clarifying the matter, you could meet the author for coffee?
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B
Odwołanie wycofuję, a na kawę pójdę. Ale najpierw niech mi wytłumaczy, co miłość ma wspólnego ze zgniłością.
I'm withdrawing the appeal, and I'll go for coffee. But first he'll have to explain to me what love has to do with rot.
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