{"id":23005,"date":"2026-05-08T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/being-human-helps-despite-rise-of-ai-is-there-still-hope-for-europes-translators\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:37:17","slug":"being-human-helps-despite-rise-of-ai-is-there-still-hope-for-europes-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/being-human-helps-despite-rise-of-ai-is-there-still-hope-for-europes-translators\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Being human helps\u2019: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe\u2019s translators?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing \u2013 but they could be needed for a while longer yet<\/p>\n

In February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta\u2019s novel Wayward<\/a> into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test whether AI could put him out of work.<\/p>\n

Gentric had been grappling with a short non-verbal sentence that described the book\u2019s protagonist\u2019s feelings upon opening a window: \u201cBright, sharp night air, bracing.\u201d He put the prompt into DeepL, a neural-network-powered machine translation engine that regularly<\/a> outperforms Google Translate in accuracy assessments.<\/p>\n

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\nA booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing \u2013 but they could be needed for a while longer yet
\nIn February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta\u2019s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test whether AI could put him out of work.
\nGentric had been grappling with a short non-verbal sentence that described the book\u2019s protagonist\u2019s feelings upon opening a window: \u201cBright, sharp night air, bracing.\u201d He put the prompt into DeepL, a neural-network-powered machine translation engine that regularly outperforms Google Translate in accuracy assessments. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing \u2013 but they could be needed for a while longer yet In February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta\u2019s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would …<\/p>\n

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