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This is very important. I'm in a situation where the work I used to do is supposed to be taken over by the shitrobot. On a job platform now 15% of the job offers are the original work, 85% is AI slop fixing in one way or another. This led me on a 2-year odyssey of trying manual work (too weak), being really poor (getting better at that), and finally deciding that if I'm forced to serve the shitrobot to avoid starving I'll serve it badly. Btw so far I've managed to avoid these jobs, may it remain so.
That said, if you are in need of a real human translator for tech or creative EN-DE projects do contact me, I'd be glad to keep doing work that makes sense!
Our company decided to build our own ai translation system because the human translators we've been hiring started using AI... Quality dropped immensely, trust is lost. CEOs don't feel like shopping around. So sad.
Here's the thing: human translators have been using 'AI' for over a decade. It used to be called machine translation, and for anything but the dumbest stuff it's a dumb idea, first nail in the coffin of translation. Translation agencies loved the shite, of course, because they could now pay a translator 0.05€ per word instead of 0.10€, arguing that now the same work took less time (it did, and also a lower quality translation was produced with a lot of costly bullshit software in the middle). The translators, as is to expect, hated it, but were forced to accept it or starve. We are now very slowly reaching the point where we are hired back as esteemed professionals after AI-caused communication mishaps and business fuckups keep piling up ...
Imho nothing wrong with AI use by professionals, as long as it's verified. That obviously wasn't the case.
I've got a friend who used to translate for the U.N.
Sometimes you do not want to mess up that translation and it's worth any price.
Believe me, in too many cases somebody thinks that a lower price can somehow be had without compromising quality. What if we let a bot do it and a human quickly checks the result? It's like proofreading, right?