AI Killed My Job: Translators

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• OmegaSunkey@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I believe this will pass. Sooner or later, the AI companies will have to stop losing money and adjust their pricing. And then it’ll turn out that using AI for everything gets you worse results than humans, at the same cost. And that will be that. I hope I can hang on until then.

  such hope, i wish i had

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It really sounds like a "Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over" reaction.

    Things will be different. Maybe AI won't replace humans entirely in this role, but it's still going to be a major tool in the toolbox.

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  • scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the AI bubble is really close to poping. If they can't make a profit on it in the next 2 years (maybe sooner with how badly the economy is about to start doing) VC money will dry up and then they will have to up prices dramatically.

    There's a lot of factors I could get into but it seems like they are going to have to start pricing AI use at the very least cost soon.

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  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or humanity will run out of power and the servers required to run AI will power down.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It‘s terrible and sad. Even more so because AI still gets things wrong all the time.

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  • doctortofu@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I'm a simultaneous interpreter, and it's a bloodbath out there. Partially because anyone who needs a translator or an interpreter by default is unable to verify the accuracy of the translation/interpretation - they can only tell if it's smooth, believable, and such. And, AIs are great at being believable even when they make shit up...

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    • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I tested a few local models to see how complete and recent their training data is. I want to use it to see if company A at xyz address is the same as Company B at xyz.1 address. I asked them for recent events and found a lot of gaps. So I asked for the roster of the 1992 dream team. Very mixed results. Open AIs model got 11/12 players correct but absolutely insisted that Christian Laettner was not the 12th player. I went back and forth with it to see if I could get it to accept my knowledge as is. It wouldn’t. I’m terrified about what happens when these AI bots have the ability to update Wikipedia in order to make the facts match their incomplete training data.

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• tiredofsametab@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.

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