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GPT gets basic things wrong frequently. This is merely a bloated media site looking to cut down on staff while blaming “technology.” Translation as a field is
by keiferski 3y ago
GPT gets basic things wrong frequently. This is merely a bloated media site looking to cut down on staff while blaming “technology.” Translation as a field is going nowhere; most likely, translators will be the primary users of ChatGPT in translation work, as it is useful for an initial rough draft.
- esperent 3y agoI've used GPT-4 extensively for translation to Vietnamese and it's _incredible_. It's the one use case where, after my wonderment wore off, I'm still consistently amazed. Vietnamese is extremely difficult to translate to and from English - every other system I've used sucks badly. It doesn't give us a rough first draft. It gives us the equivalent of a second or third draft. The equivalent to the final result we'd get back from translators after a lot more back and forth. Honestly, it's better or equivalent to any human service I've used. Usually when it translates badly, a human would also translate badly and it means that section needs rewriting. It handles all kinds of things that I wouldn't expect, idioms, jokes, technical writing. There are very few mistakes. I can only imagine it's even better at Spanish. We don't pay for human translation anymore. The workload is reduced enough that we do the final editing ourselves. We still use human translation for legal stuff because that has to be done by an official translator. So I guess that's safe.