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Poll: What role does GenAI play in your translation work?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 12:37
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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N/A Sep 14

It played no role at all until recently when a client started asking for PEMT...

Peter Motte
 
Thayenga
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Germany
Local time: 13:37
Member (2009)
English to German
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AI again Sep 14

Regardless of what name it might use, anything AI related (German translation KI: keine Intelligenz = no intelligence) has no room in neither my work nor my life. Hopefully, by the time it will take over, I won't be around any longer.

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Sonja Köppen
Cilian O'Tuama
Alex Lichanow
María Domínguez Camba
 
Cilian O'Tuama
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Germany
Local time: 13:37
German to English
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artificial ignorance Sep 14

Thayenga wrote:

...anything AI related (German translation KI: keine Intelligenz = no intelligence) has...


I've been calling AI artificial ignorance for 2-3 years now I suppose, much in line with your "KI: keine Intelligenz = no intelligence".

It can have advantages and be helpful. But it's bloody dangerous to rely on it.

Maria Laura Curzi
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 13:37
English to German
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AI spam Sep 15

Thayenga wrote:

Regardless of what name it might use, anything AI related (German translation KI: keine Intelligenz = no intelligence) has no room in neither my work nor my life. Hopefully, by the time it will take over, I won't be around any longer.


ProZ hates real professionals, so I guess it might just as well be a tactic to get rid of us.

Maria Laura Curzi
María Domínguez Camba
 


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