A Chinese washing machine manufacturer may not hesitate to use MT (Google Translate, chatGPT or otherwise) to translate the instruction manual to English. In s

A Chinese washing machine manufacturer may not hesitate to use MT (Google Translate, chatGPT or otherwise) to translate the instruction manual to English. In some cases, the quality may not go down or even go up (we've probably all seen some pretty bad human translations). "AI" is not the only automation that threatens translation jobs: translation memories (plain ol' databases that remember past translations) have killed a lot of business for human translators, namely re-translating new versions of products, where not a lot has changed. Nowadays, they only get paid for the sentences that were modified compared to the previous version ("the diff"). SDL Trados is an example of this simple approach that is extremely effective, and used heavily e.g. by the European Commission's translation service.