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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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.