Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing – The Markup
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Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced

Last November, The Bookseller reported Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning, owned by publishing titan Simon & Schuster, was testing the use of artificial intelligence to help translate several of its books to English.

  • @Hugin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•16 days ago

    To be fair a lot of human translators don’t bother to be accurate or capture wordplay. Some of the translations for netflix are so bad.

    • @CatladyX@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•15 days ago

      you’re right, there are translators and translators

      that’s why there are expressions such as “traduttore, traditore” (“translator, traitor” in Italian). to translate is to betray the language in a way