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My pricing policy has always been to screw as much out of all my clients as I think I can get away with.
I suspect I have underestimated how much this is for most of my direct clients,
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
robbed by human referees and VAR [/quote]
VAR is ruining almost every game. AI couldn’t do a worse job.
Again, though, it’s technology causing the problem
[quote]Chris Spurgin wrote:
I asked AI three things and it got one of them wrong. [/quote]
Lionel Messi misses the goal regularly and he’s the GOAT. Should we expect AI to achiev
[quote]Maria G. Grassi, M.A. wrote:
Sorry if I step in, I would just like to point out that maybe not speaking Italian could prevent one from really seeing and truly appreciating the di
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
An awful lot of people who say AI will kill translation seem to be still paying their Proz subscription - and coming on here to tell us all about how terrib
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
It is not a "giggle" for me to carefully rewrite and rewrite a text until it's correct and has picked up the ironies that ChatGPT didn't understand. So don't t
The confidentiality issue is easily resolved, and most texts don't contain innuendo etc.
Tom, I think your translation example in the other, discussion-proof thread supports the view t
[quote]Steve Robbie wrote:
The English source text is a sloppy, amateurish piece of writing. I wouldn't want to translate it professionally. Why would anyone do it for fun? [/quote]
We
[quote]Anna Sarah Krämer wrote:
I suspect this survey is trying to ask those who have studied translation in an actual university if they feel bad about us dirty folks who just walked in
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
Yet another disadvantage of PEMT.[/quote]
What does machine translation have to do with this ? [/quote]
Needing to<
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
While I'm working I like to enjoy the benefits of not being in incognito mode (frequently visited pages that load faster, etcetera). It's not about privacy (i
[quote]Daryo wrote:
The short of it: rules you can apply when you know who you're dealing with and can trust is one thing - in that case ANY form of communication is good enough. But I
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
...which is very obviously not neutral in its approach to AI. I'm not saying whether this is a positive or a negative bias. Anyone completing the survey wil
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
I have to disagree on this. I think it is very human to make the most unlogical mistakes possible because of being distracted. A computer can't be distracte
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
I don’t have to do them. I always go straight into the site. I wonder why that is? What is different about our setup?
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
I work with agencies with automated invoice issuing (I don't have to send the invoice to them, they prepare it for me), but I've never encountered a business (and c
[quote]Peter Motte wrote:
I'm getting sick and tired of having to fill in dozens of times those tests when I log in to see whether I'm genuine.[/quote]
I don’t have to do them. I
[quote]Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
You're getting used to doing this particular task not only because the material is written by the same writer but you are getting the hang of translating
1. You haven’t quite reached the time they said they’d pay, so don’t panic.
2. Some agencies do not issue a PO until after you deliver the job. That is entirely normal, albeit weird
The global agencies seem to be putting more and more through the machines, but there are still plenty of boutique agencies and direct clients who aren't.
I imagine you're right about th
On the video call with Henry the other day he seemed flabbergasted that I didn't use AI in my work at all, so I've been trying it out...
Translation: It gets stuff wrong. No surpris
Checking is not something I ever enjoy doing, or do much of, but in that situation you have to just talk to the client about it.
I do get the frustration. Why didn't they ask me to tra
[quote]Jennifer Levey wrote:
FWIW: I received a very belated invite at the same time as Becca and Ice - some 25 minutes after the start time announced by Henry on 27th October.
I had a
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
People will eventually just stop using that subpar AI implementation in KudoZ.
It's not the first time that at Proz they insisted on a useless gimmick which finall
[quote]Henry Dotterer wrote:
Unless I have missed it, no one here has asked for the link to the meeting that I scheduled to discuss this topic.
I'm not sure how it can be that there
[quote]Lingua 5B wrote:
[quote]Ice Scream wrote:
even in niches like mine where it shouldn't really be happening.
[/quote]
Why? In my language pair, absolutely lowest rates are
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
Even the argument that you can't deliver a fluently sounding translation with a CAT tool (segmentation, you know) is nonsense. A few weeks ago I was asked to<
[quote]Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
I'm not aware of other uses of ChatGPT on Proz? [/quote]
I think it’s being used in the coding (surge in bugs) and moderation (removal of
[quote]ibz wrote:
So ... still no answer and we're definitely not heard and ProZ obviously couldn't care less.
[/quote]
Henry has actually answered the question though. He's just
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
In my opinion, AI is a red herring in all of this. It plays a role, but not a very important one. Because AI is The Big New Thing, everybody thinks everything
The machines are taking over parts of the market
More foreigners are writing in English
Is my impression
I’ve had less in than usual the past few months
It could just be o
There seems little point in spending time on a big debate when I have not seen a single person say they like the feature. Not one.
I think our position is clear.
There's been a lot of negativity recently so I thought it might be nice to give something back to all the hard-working people behind this site.
I'll start the ball rolling with...
1.
[quote]Henry Dotterer wrote:
As everyone knows, ProZ is and always has been on the side of the translator. AI is a tool. (As Mr. Satan said, "use the right tool for the right job".) Intro
It might be a good idea for you to address the concerns of a majority of posters here about ProZ’s how inclusion of AI on KudoZ. It has been less than warmly received. Many feel ProZ sho
It must be hard to retain your sanity wearing a fez all day.
I do sympathise with Sorana, but I mostly tell my own tale of woe to non-translators who haven’t got anything to prove and
[quote]Philip Lees wrote: But most accountants simply adopted the new technology and incorporated it into their workflow.
I'm just suggesting that translators should do the same. [
[quote]Maciek Drobka wrote:
Out of pure curiosity, were these also the most frequent arguments against the speed limit cut? [/quote]
Lol, no. The most frequent objections were more p
[quote]Emanuele Vacca wrote:
Regarding LinkedIn, some individuals advocate daily posting to maximize its potential. They claim that a significant portion of their client base comes fr
[quote]Philip Lees wrote:
So the AI mania dates back to the mid-1960s. Every so often a new piece of software comes out and the mass media go crazy about computers replacing humans, makin
[quote]Daryo wrote:
You're confusing gimmicks and what really works.
Obviously, you have never seen how many tools (and the quantity of various materials) there is in an average trades
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
After all, Ice Scream and Tom in London do not trade under those names, they can say what they like without ever being judged. [/quote]
Yeah, right…😂😂
[quote]Asso Kork wrote:
How am I supposed to know who the company’s clients are? If I were to sign such clause, should I ask every prospective client from now on "please let me know,
[quote]Siskia Lagomarsino wrote:
The ProZ Portfolio feature requires that I confirm I own the source text, however, which most often isn't the case.
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What texts could any t
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
We are supposed to be in a democracy (even with some us having few voting rights), so why do politicians, bureaucrats and eurocrats refuse to listen to the p
[quote]Jeff Whittaker wrote:
I predict there will actually be MORE work for translators as a result of AI
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I don’t think so. Unless you count sorting out the mess as translati
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