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“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The local editors can improve the quality of the translated articles, adding or modifying parts to appeal Spanish-speaking audience.

That assumes those local editors will be given any time to take on that extra workload of sorting through whatever translational errors the AI has done.

Even if an AI accurately translates the article text word for wrord, literal translation does not often equal accurate translation.