That’s true, and especially smaller businesses often can’t afford translation services. If a machine translation can increase their sales, I won’t blame them for using it. I’m just a language nerd who knows nothing about running a business (and I’m not even an actual translator, I just happened to speak the right language at the right time).
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Maybe I’m not super up to date on AI stuff, but I worked as a translator for a year, and AI (they used ChatGPT and DeepL) still made a bunch of mistakes that you’ll immediately notice when you speak the language. It feels like their training input had a bunch of older, Google-translated articles in them that were just bad. Maybe an AI trained specifically for translation with curated learning material and a “teacher” who corrects mistakes can get closer to replacing human translators, but it’d still miss the cultural context of certain words and phrases that are in a translator’s passive vocabulary, at least in less widely spread languages.
That being said, it’s definitely harder to make a career out of translating because companies who don’t know any better just use AI instead. As long as they get their point across (and make money), they don’t care about the finer details.
LordAmplifier@pawb.socialto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Looks like a pretty good life to me.English10·5 months agoSo, instead of just playing video games by myself, I should do a livestream?
He ate a lot of his poop, yes, but not all of it and always straight from his butt. I think they do that because it contains nutrients they need but don’t get (or don’t get enough of) through their normal diet. He had a litter box in one corner of the room that he peed and pooped in, and he never touched that when he was done.
Our bunny looked at me like that every time I collected his poop to use it as fertiliser for my plants, but he got used to it after a while. I think he was still silently judging me.
There is a community for that kind of stuff if you’re into it - [email protected]. It’s kinda inactive and only has a new post once every other month, but there’s a photo of basically the same thing done to an HDMI cable seven posts down.