Poll: Do you think AI will reduce translators’ incomes in the coming years? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you think AI will reduce translators’ incomes in the coming years?".
This poll was originally submitted by Seraye Mayda. View the poll results »
| | | | | In the coming years? | Feb 22 |
More like in the coming weeks/months.
| | | | Michael Newton 
United States
Local time: 09:34
Japanese to English
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| AI and translators' incomes | Feb 22 |
Is the Pope Catholic?
| | | | Daryo
Local time: 14:34
Serbian to English
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Full-time translators? Part-time translators? Zero-time (aka: ex-) translators?
Those who chose right to which other profession to move have a fairly good chance of increasing their income.
These 'nuances' aside ... does water flow uphill?
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Why are "Yes" and "No" not among the possible answers?
In any case, my answer is "Other", because AI, on its own, will not and cannot "do" anything. AI has no volition. It cannot, on its own, make decisions or perform actions that affect anybody's income, either translators' or other professions'.
Yes, of course, translators have already seen a drop in their income because of the way AI has been implemented by some operators in the translation profession. But it's those... See more Why are "Yes" and "No" not among the possible answers?
In any case, my answer is "Other", because AI, on its own, will not and cannot "do" anything. AI has no volition. It cannot, on its own, make decisions or perform actions that affect anybody's income, either translators' or other professions'.
Yes, of course, translators have already seen a drop in their income because of the way AI has been implemented by some operators in the translation profession. But it's those operators, not the AI, that have reduced the translators' incomes.
I think that a website devoted (supposedly) to linguists should be more careful and precise in its use of language. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Betül Öztürk
Türkiye
Local time: 16:34
English to Turkish
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| What are we experiencing right now? | Feb 23 |
It already has!
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This is happening now. At least for me.
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A teaspoon is equally dangerous to the world water reserves.
In a divided world, yes, it will reduce. In a world with free and massive as never the flows of information, the constant problem will be 'God, may you finally give us the true AI to translate at least part of the flow'.
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