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

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…

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeOP
      12·
      12 days ago

      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.

          • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
            3·
            12 days 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.