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Classics departments are disappearing and AI cannot even read their texts. The polytonic Greek problem nobody talks about.

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Every major AI model on market today fails at polytonic Ancient Greek. Not a little. Completely. Ask ChatGPT to parse a sentence from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in original Greek and watch what happens. It confuses accents, drops breathings, produces Modern Greek where polytonic should be. The…

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  1. 2026-09-02 14:24 · r/artificial
    Classics departments are disappearing and AI cannot even read their texts. The polytonic Greek problem nobody talks about.

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