Do you need to use AI? Why not using European alternatives

DeepL is pretty neat, can confirm
- The app even has translating from photos.
  
  I'm using that feature to read memes from German comms

Does anyone need to use AI, truly?

No, I don't need AI, I'm already OP.

Don't forget the ai horde! Not only European, but also completely Foss and crowdsourced. https://aihorde.net/

Flux (image generator) is by Black Forest Labs out of Germany

Counterpoint: openAI loses money on every ChatGPT search so using them is actually damaging them.
Counterpoint 2: AI sucks and no one should use it.
- AI is great if you use it the right way. When writing at work, I usually ask for a template or a structure. That way I skip the basic stuff and have some scaffolding to iterate on. It removes the blank page. I love it.

I have a DeepL plug-in in my browser and a DeepL app. I highlight text, and press to translate. This is great if you want to learn a language (I compare my understanding of a sequence with the translation, check what the one word I didn't understand meant, etc.)

I really want to make the complete switch to DeepL instead of Google Translate, but I can't figure out how to setup the URL for auto detecting language.
With https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=SEARCHTERM whatever word or sentence I input, it uses the "Detect language" option, which I know that DeepL has as an option for too. But I can't figure out what keyword to put in the DeepL url, for it to use the Detect Language option.
Here's English to Spanish: https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#en/es/SEARCHTERM
Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious due to having been down with the flu this past week.
EDIT - Also putting this here, from my later reply, for visibility:
Looks like the parameter used to be xx, but that it's been broken for some time now, if this exchange in January on stackoverflow.com is to be believed. Or the parameter was . and/or auto, according to this Reddit thread back in November, where they also talk about it being broken.
- @riot @Blaze DeepL isn't easy to use from URL search, because they sell the API as premium access.
  I'm using Lingva instead:
  https://lingva.ml/auto/en/SEARCHTERM
  
  Ah, I see. Then it makes sense why they removed the functionality.
  But Lingva looks great! Thank you for that tip. Even though it's just a Google Translate scraper, it looks promising for my usage! Going to see how it works out for me in the coming days.
- For me, just the default URL gives "detect language"... (https://www.deepl.com/en/translator).
  
  Yes, if you go to the website, and start typing, it defaults to the Detect language option.
  But what I'm talking about is customizing the url, so you don't need to go to the site, to start your search.
  If you go to https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=%C2%BFHola, cómo estás? it will automatically detect that the string is in Spanish, because of the auto in the url.
  That's what I'm looking for with DeepL.
  EDIT: Damn, seems like the parameter used to be xx, but that it's been broken for some time now, if this exchange in January on stackoverflow.com is to be believed. Or the parameter was . and/or auto, according to this Reddit thread back in November, where they also talk about it being broken.
- @riot @Blaze Well, #Vivaldi comes with build in translation feature: https://vivaldi.com/features/translate/
  
  That is true, as do most browsers nowadays, including Firefox, now that I've ditched Chromium.
  But we are discussing DeepL, and in that regard, my issue with the URL is that I am using the built-in browser search engine section, where you can setup your own url and write in a keyword. Then every time you type that keyword in the address bar, any term following it will be searched on the site, through the URL that you have provided.
  There's more detail on that in this previous comment of mine, in reply to an earlier user who responded to my original comment.

Isn't Mistral Microsoft?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_AI#Partnership_with_Microsoft
- @Dequei @Blaze
  No, it's a French company

Scaleway is awesome using Open WebUI or directly through their own site:
https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/model-as-a-service/

Love DeepL. May make some of the same mistakes by doing more literal translations (like every other service does) for things like names of people/games (from what I've tested with Japanese), but is still decent overall.

You can also just use the built-in local (i.e. no 3rd party online service) LLM translation in Firefox (Project Bergamot).

I've heard DeepL Write can replace Grammarly. Has anybody checked it?

@Blaze Mistral is fine but I haven't found a match for Perplexity.ai as of now. Its research, reasoning and accurate citation capabilties are simply superb. Perplexity is a Meta-AI that generates prompts that force the AI's it works with to be more precise. It can be configured to use various other AIs, but Mistral is not among them.