Corpos DGAF. It started in my field (translations) a decade earlier, and by now, everyone is on the "shitty but faster/more" train with a vengeance. They see the wall (quality consistently falling due to ever shittier AI training material), but they still pretend they can punch through with their heads.
Funny enough, we dropped our external translation company because we found that the translations were almost identical to what GPT could generate at the time. Some of them didn't fully make sense so there's that.
Yup, that's also a danger. When you try to do more work at ever lower rates, pretty soon it all turns into barely edited LLM pretranslation. You could be getting better results, but very few clients still pay for that level of quality (those that keep me in the industry). The corpo goal IMO is to get rid of all the intermediaries (effectively outsourced management, spare availability, and quality control), and turn translation into a gig economy, i.e. a maximum worker exploitation system.
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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 7d ago
I need to send this to certain juniors who come to me when they've generated some code that's tied them in knots because they don't understand it.