>>72859925I liked what Nazuner had with the live human translator integrated in stream. It was neat. Translators in chat are the same, and I appreciate them.
Downside of humans that it gives you a focal point of your annoyance if you are actually jōzu instead of just thinking "lol funny AI is bad at nihongo". Upside is that sometimes they do cute or funny interjections such as writing "(eardrum shattering scream)".
Autotranslators are still not great, but better year by year.
Even an pre-N5 EOP should pick up on the tone and some basic words, enough to know when the autotranslator is totally wrong. So they're good enough if they're all you have. I like that they lead to silly mistranslations that create fun reaction images.