Sure, "decent" translation as in novels etc will continue to be hand-crafted, but the vast majority of translation is low-end bulk stuff like business reports a

Sure, "decent" translation as in novels etc will continue to be hand-crafted, but the vast majority of translation is low-end bulk stuff like business reports and technical documentation, paid pennies per word. I know one (former) professional translator, and dumping text into Google Translate was always her starting point. Interestingly, her job got harder when Google rolled out the new deep learning models, because instead of outputting visibly broken garbage that kind of flagged itself for checking, it now tends to produce beautifully formed sentences with subtle but often critical fuckups (wrong sense of a word, missing negation, parsing a pronoun incorrectly, etc) that can affect meaning.