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Yasmina Austin
Khurram Shahzad
 
writeaway
writeaway  Identity Verified
French to English
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In the coming years? Feb 22

More like in the coming weeks/months.

Michele Fauble
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
M. Anna Kańduła
Philip Lees
Epameinondas Soufleros
P.L.F. Persi (X)
Elaine Ruby
 
Michael Newton
Michael Newton  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 17:50
Japanese to English
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AI and translators' incomes Feb 22

Is the Pope Catholic?

Philip Lees
P.L.F. Persi (X)
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
writeaway
Jéssica Gomes
Claudio Machado Junior
Sabine Braun (X)
 
Daryo
Daryo
Local time: 22:50
Serbian to English
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Which ones? Feb 23

Full-time translators? Part-time translators? Zero-time (aka: ex-) translators?

Those who chose right to which other profession to move have a fairly good chance of increasing their income.

These 'nuances' aside ... does water flow uphill?

P.L.F. Persi (X)
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Thomas Senepart
Claudio Machado Junior
Khurram Shahzad
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Greece
Local time: 00:50
Greek to English
Yes and no Feb 23

Why are "Yes" and "No" not among the possible answers?

In any case, my answer is "Other", because AI, on its own, will not and cannot "do" anything. AI has no volition. It cannot, on its own, make decisions or perform actions that affect anybody's income, either translators' or other professions'.

Yes, of course, translators have already seen a drop in their income because of the way AI has been implemented by some operators in the translation profession. But it's those... See more
Why are "Yes" and "No" not among the possible answers?

In any case, my answer is "Other", because AI, on its own, will not and cannot "do" anything. AI has no volition. It cannot, on its own, make decisions or perform actions that affect anybody's income, either translators' or other professions'.

Yes, of course, translators have already seen a drop in their income because of the way AI has been implemented by some operators in the translation profession. But it's those operators, not the AI, that have reduced the translators' incomes.

I think that a website devoted (supposedly) to linguists should be more careful and precise in its use of language. ▲ Collapse


Epameinondas Soufleros
P.L.F. Persi (X)
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
writeaway
expressisverbis
Malkitu
Daryo
 
Betül Öztürk
Betül Öztürk
Türkiye
Local time: 00:50
English to Turkish
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What are we experiencing right now? Feb 23

It already has!

Claudio Machado Junior
Khurram Shahzad
Maria Laura Curzi
Ian Keith Jones Williams
Epameinondas Soufleros
M. Anna Kańduła
shirley damazo
 
Claudio Machado Junior
Claudio Machado Junior  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 18:50
Membro (2014)
English to Portuguese
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It's reducing now Feb 23

This is happening now. At least for me.

Khurram Shahzad
Maria Laura Curzi
Vincenzo Di Maso
Ian Keith Jones Williams
Epameinondas Soufleros
M. Anna Kańduła
 
Gennady Lapardin
Gennady Lapardin  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 00:50
Italian to Russian
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other Feb 23

A teaspoon is equally dangerous to the world water reserves.
In a divided world, yes, it will reduce. In a world with free and massive as never the flows of information, the constant problem will be 'God, may you finally give us the true AI to translate at least part of the flow'.

Khurram Shahzad
 


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