Stefan Mileschin

More to be lost in translation

For a while now there has been a myth that AI can operate good language translation services.

In fact, companies have been insisting that translation firms slash their fees and work alongside machine translation systems from Deepl, and Google. The only problem is that automatic translation systems are universally shite and it is only a matter of time before some big corporate gets taken to the cleaners in court for using them. While they can be useful for cut and pasting clear text, legal, or technical translations (which make up the bulk of translation work) are at best unreliable, and at worse outright dangerous.

For example here is a Deepl translation from Italian for a legal document to give you an idea.

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/54582-m...ervice-with-ai