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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. (themarkup.org)

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Last November, The Bookseller reported Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning, owned by publishing titan Simon & Schuster, was testing the use of artificial intelligence to help translate several of its books to English.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair a lot of human translators don't bother to be accurate or capture wordplay. Some of the translations for netflix are so bad.

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

you're right, there are translators and translators

that's why there are expressions such as "traduttore, traditore" ("translator, traitor" in Italian). to translate is to betray the language in a way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Great expression.