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‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? (www.theguardian.com)
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A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm.

and so it begins...

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If these are technical manuals, I see no issue.

But fucking fiction?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i see an issue with technical manuals as well. i am not native english speaker and whenever some android app decides to machine translate itself to my native language, it is a fucking disaster. some words can be translated in multiple ways depending on context and guess what is missing when translating stuff like app menus? that's right.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All the more reason to chip in as a (human) volunteer translating open source apps 🙂

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    There are several UI translation projects, one is Transifex. There is also Crowdin, but I see they have started using "AI" translations as well...

    Generally, both mobile and web apps that are interested in volunteer translators will have a link to their preferred platform in their source code repository.

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