Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
  • isaacd@lemmy.world
    16·
    10 months ago

    Though my sample size is small, these stories fit my thesis that the real AI jobs crisis is that the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of "powerful AI” encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have. More important than the technological change, perhaps, is the change in a social permission structure.

    Agreed. If a company says “we’ve automated this job and it’s now done by AI,” they mean “we’ve decided to take advantage of media trends by dramatically lowering the quality and reliability of our processes, consistent with our policy of doing things as cheaply as our customers will tolerate.”

  • TarantulaFudge@startrek.website
    2·
    10 months ago

    The AI translations still suck big time. Yes I run whisper on my local stuff, but I shouldn’t be able to tell that much from Crunchyroll. Like common at least review the subtitles… What the heck am I even paying for

    • Panini@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      27·
      10 months ago

      Genuinely, what the hell are you doing in this community? I’ve never read a more snide and condescending derision of an entire field of labor based on an entirely corporatist, anti-worker, grindset worldview on this forum to date. Following this line of thought across our society leads us to an absolute fucking dystopia, and somehow you’ve not only internalized it and self aggrandize about how you pulled yourself up to the next level of success by your bootstraps, you’ve went and tried to argue that asinine point in a community focused on strengthening the rights, powers, and well being of the common worker.

      Why are you here?

    • thekidxp@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      10 months ago

      To some extent I get what you’re saying, people do need to evolve and things change but also while we have humans with jobs I also feel like they should be comfortable. Some of the things that you’re listing as failings feel perfectly reasonable to me. Like having water or having a comfortable place to sleep if you need to be on location for a job. We’re all going to have to evolve and see what work looks like as things change but that’s not a reason in my opinion to price ourselves into unsustainable conditions or pay. Once that’s the case then we clearly need some other way to make things work or unionize to protect each other.