The Voynich Manuscript: Understanding the Untranslatable with Lisa Fagin Davis

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I use AI assistance since writing a post in english is time consuming and exhausting to me. That said, the discussion about AI usage is missing the point.

But, Torsten, why not write it in your native German and then ask AI for a strict translation?  

Otherwise, you risk the impression of it looking like you've just told an LLM "Write me a post for Voynich Ninja criticizing this paper" and put it as a response to the thread.  It doesn't feel like we are engaging with you if we reply.  I can confirm this feeling in practice.  You provided a lengthy AI written critique of someone else's work a while ago.  One of your arguments seemed odd to me, but I may have had the wrong end of the stick.  Pre LLM days, I would have simply asked you.  But I ended up choosing not to bother: since your post was so clearly LLM written, I thought I would just be talking to ChatGPT, and I'm not interested in doing that.  I get enough LLM written correspondence as it is from sloppers claiming they aren't using LLMs.