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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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N/A Sep 17

Asking this question to us translators is useless, whatever our opinion. Shouldn’t it be addressed to computer engineers? A brief Internet research led me to this MIT paper:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/researchers-reduce-bias-ai-models-while-preserving-improving-accuracy-1211

Jennifer Levey
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Claudio Machado Junior
Sara Daitch
Luis M. Sosa
Maria Laura Curzi
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Alex Lichanow
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The most effective way... Sep 17

...is to toss "AI" language models out of the proverbial window, forget about them and let human professionals do their job.

Claudio Machado Junior
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Maria Laura Curzi
Sean O'Byrne
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Géraldine Fourrier
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Claudio Machado Junior
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I really don't care Sep 17

Really.

Maria Laura Curzi
 
Sean O'Byrne
Sean O'Byrne
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Just don't use them Sep 17

Just don't use them

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Géraldine Fourrier
Angus Stewart
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expressisverbis
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My view Sep 17

I'm not anti-AI. I use AI myself sometimes, and I can see its value as a tool and an assistant only.
What I am against is treating AI as an opportunity to reduce the amount of work available to translators and, at the same time, push their rates down.
A translator is not simply a human quality-control layer for AI.
We are qualified professionals who can analyse, research, understand and translate complex material themselves.
AI can assist the translator, just as CAT tool... See more
I'm not anti-AI. I use AI myself sometimes, and I can see its value as a tool and an assistant only.
What I am against is treating AI as an opportunity to reduce the amount of work available to translators and, at the same time, push their rates down.
A translator is not simply a human quality-control layer for AI.
We are qualified professionals who can analyse, research, understand and translate complex material themselves.
AI can assist the translator, just as CAT tools, terminology databases and other technologies do. But it shouldn't automatically mean replacing part of the human work, reducing the volume of work available, or lowering the value placed on that work.
Perhaps reducing bias in AI translation also means treating translators as human professionals with the knowledge, skills and capacity to do their job properly, and recognising their right to be treated with the same dignity and professional respect as any other skilled professional. ▲ Collapse
 


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