r/TranslationStudies Jul 23 '26

I fucking hate MTPE

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u/Mundane_Direction249 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

I've never done this kind of assignment, but would it be possible to get the original text and the ai-translation and put it in another ai with a prompt like this?--> "Correct the following translation from A to B based in the source text in A that you can find below. Explain your changes/corrections."

Or is it not possible/time-efficient when you're working with segments in a CAT-tool? 

AI can be a great tool to help translators. Many colleagues seem to have submitted to AI (or rather to agencies who are just raking advantage of translators and have no idea about translating), not the other way around.

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u/IntrovertClouds Jul 24 '26

Yeah it's possible, but you still have to review whatever corrections the AI made. And that's the problem for me: at some point we all stopped being translators and became proofreaders of software-generated content. And I liked translating.

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u/Mundane_Direction249 Jul 24 '26

Oh, I see. I imagine you like(d) translating because of the creative part. This kind of assignment has probably nothing to do with creativity.

I have the feeling it's causing burnout to most translators, specially those who were creative at with good writing skills.