Guerrilla Media Collective
@guerrillamedia.bsky.social
Cooperativa de traducción y servicios editoriales feminista y orientada al procomún. También conocidos como @GuerrillaTrans en la otra red. https://t.co/NoCP0fm0df
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"And then, as everything AI started to slide down the long downwards slope of the hype cycle, my job came back."
This corresponds with the what colleagues shared at the AVÜ meeting last weekend. Anecdotal evidence, but it is a silver lining at the end of the hype tunnel.
#HumansNotMachines
This corresponds with the what colleagues shared at the AVÜ meeting last weekend. Anecdotal evidence, but it is a silver lining at the end of the hype tunnel.
#HumansNotMachines
"Machine translation hasn’t even improved with the advent of AI – contrary to the online hype, our industry never got its big OpenAI moment. I’m starting to suspect that we’ve been forced down this path by an unhappy coincidence of sunk costs and economic downturn."
TATM #4: There will be a happy ending, by Julian Pintat - Guerrilla Media Collective
AI-powered translation has failed to live up to its hype, and there are signs that the industry might be recovering. Is the bubble about to burst?
www.guerrillamedia.coop
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"And then, as everything AI started to slide down the long downwards slope of the hype cycle, my job came back."
This corresponds with the what colleagues shared at the AVÜ meeting last weekend. Anecdotal evidence, but it is a silver lining at the end of the hype tunnel.
#HumansNotMachines
This corresponds with the what colleagues shared at the AVÜ meeting last weekend. Anecdotal evidence, but it is a silver lining at the end of the hype tunnel.
#HumansNotMachines
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🏘️ "En torno a un millar de personas habita ya en viviendas cooperativas en cesión de uso, un modelo en auge en los últimos años y que se presenta como una fórmula alternativa a la propiedad y el alquiler"
💚 Ens fa molt felices saber que som part d'aquesta transformació.
Via @eldiario.es
💚 Ens fa molt felices saber que som part d'aquesta transformació.
Via @eldiario.es
La vida cooperativa ante la crisis de vivienda: "Me decían que iba a ser un timo, pero le debo todo a este modelo"
En torno a un millar de personas habita ya en viviendas cooperativas en cesión de uso, un modelo en auge en los últimos años y que se presenta como una fórmula alternativa a la propiedad y el alquiler
www.eldiario.es
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🏘️ "En torno a un millar de personas habita ya en viviendas cooperativas en cesión de uso, un modelo en auge en los últimos años y que se presenta como una fórmula alternativa a la propiedad y el alquiler"
💚 Ens fa molt felices saber que som part d'aquesta transformació.
Via @eldiario.es
💚 Ens fa molt felices saber que som part d'aquesta transformació.
Via @eldiario.es
"Machine translation hasn’t even improved with the advent of AI – contrary to the online hype, our industry never got its big OpenAI moment. I’m starting to suspect that we’ve been forced down this path by an unhappy coincidence of sunk costs and economic downturn."
TATM #4: There will be a happy ending, by Julian Pintat - Guerrilla Media Collective
AI-powered translation has failed to live up to its hype, and there are signs that the industry might be recovering. Is the bubble about to burst?
www.guerrillamedia.coop
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"Machine translation hasn’t even improved with the advent of AI – contrary to the online hype, our industry never got its big OpenAI moment. I’m starting to suspect that we’ve been forced down this path by an unhappy coincidence of sunk costs and economic downturn."
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“El medio ambiente estaba destruido antes de la guerra. Pero desde que comenzó, ha sido destruido varias veces por encima de la imaginación”, explica Yasser El-Nahhal, químico ambiental y ecotoxicólogo de la Universidad Islámica de Gaza.
De genocidio a ecocidio: Gaza, frente a una crisis ambiental "más allá de la imaginación" - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
Un nuevo informe de científicos en Israel detalla que Gaza está cubierta por unas 61 millones de toneladas de escombros, muchos de los cuales contienen amianto, municiones sin explotar y restos humanos sin enterrar.
f.mtr.cool
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“El medio ambiente estaba destruido antes de la guerra. Pero desde que comenzó, ha sido destruido varias veces por encima de la imaginación”, explica Yasser El-Nahhal, químico ambiental y ecotoxicólogo de la Universidad Islámica de Gaza.
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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“Internet fue concebido como un espacio abierto, colaborativo y sin fronteras... pero hoy está mediado por unas pocas corporaciones.”
“Hablar de código abierto ya no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una apuesta ideológica y política.”
ethic.es/codigo-abie...
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“Hablar de código abierto ya no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una apuesta ideológica y política.”
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Código abierto: la resistencia del internet libre | Ethic
Frente al dominio de los gigantes tecnológicos, los proyectos de código abierto reivindican un internet más democrático.
ethic.es
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Internet fue concebido como un espacio abierto, colaborativo y sin fronteras... pero hoy está mediado por unas pocas corporaciones.”
“Hablar de código abierto ya no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una apuesta ideológica y política.”
ethic.es/codigo-abie...
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“Hablar de código abierto ya no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una apuesta ideológica y política.”
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Honored to be featured on the list that Metabolic included at the end of "Fertile Ground" as one of the organisations working to transform the economic system in Europe and beyond! 💚
Check out this inspiring mapping effort towards a just and fair transformation ✨
www.metabolic.nl/publications...
Check out this inspiring mapping effort towards a just and fair transformation ✨
www.metabolic.nl/publications...
Fertile Ground - Metabolic
Report maps and assesses the new economy ecosystem in Europe
www.metabolic.nl
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Honored to be featured on the list that Metabolic included at the end of "Fertile Ground" as one of the organisations working to transform the economic system in Europe and beyond! 💚
Check out this inspiring mapping effort towards a just and fair transformation ✨
www.metabolic.nl/publications...
Check out this inspiring mapping effort towards a just and fair transformation ✨
www.metabolic.nl/publications...
In this age of AI-generated, poor-quality texts all around the world, we firmly believe in higher-quality, human-rendered translations.
✨HAPPY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRANSLATION DAY✨
PS. Translators Against The Machine open call is still on: www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...
✨HAPPY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRANSLATION DAY✨
PS. Translators Against The Machine open call is still on: www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...
Translators Against the Machine: Open Call for articles on the translation industry - Guerrilla Media Collective
Calling all linguists! For a while now we’ve been running the Translators Against the Machine initiative. We met up in person recently and discussed new directions for the project, and we’ve decided t...
www.guerrillamedia.coop
September 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In this age of AI-generated, poor-quality texts all around the world, we firmly believe in higher-quality, human-rendered translations.
✨HAPPY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRANSLATION DAY✨
PS. Translators Against The Machine open call is still on: www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...
✨HAPPY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRANSLATION DAY✨
PS. Translators Against The Machine open call is still on: www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...
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"Je commencerai par reconnaître ma situation de privilège : la raison la plus immédiate pour laquelle je n’utilise pas l’IA, c’est que j’exerce mon métier de traducteur dans de bonnes conditions."
Aujourd'hui, c'est la Saint-Jérôme, saint patron des traducteurices. Et ils sont un paquet à être en grève aujourd'hui pour protester contre la dégradation de nos conditions de travail, mais aussi contre l'usage de l'IA.
C'est l'occasion de partager ce billet : clement-martin.fr/fr/posts/et-...
C'est l'occasion de partager ce billet : clement-martin.fr/fr/posts/et-...
September 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"Je commencerai par reconnaître ma situation de privilège : la raison la plus immédiate pour laquelle je n’utilise pas l’IA, c’est que j’exerce mon métier de traducteur dans de bonnes conditions."
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AI hype is ruining the actual benefits of technology that can be utilized for human-centered, good, use cases.
When the bubble inevitably bursts, I can't help but wonder how tech companies could ever recover because the trust with users
is so broken now.
When the bubble inevitably bursts, I can't help but wonder how tech companies could ever recover because the trust with users
is so broken now.
September 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
AI hype is ruining the actual benefits of technology that can be utilized for human-centered, good, use cases.
When the bubble inevitably bursts, I can't help but wonder how tech companies could ever recover because the trust with users
is so broken now.
When the bubble inevitably bursts, I can't help but wonder how tech companies could ever recover because the trust with users
is so broken now.
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Feliz Día de la Traducción Humana. Un gran día para reflexionar, disfrutar y señalar con el dedo a todos los enemigos de clase y a todas las empresas ladronas que están acabando con este bello oficio.
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Feliz Día de la Traducción Humana. Un gran día para reflexionar, disfrutar y señalar con el dedo a todos los enemigos de clase y a todas las empresas ladronas que están acabando con este bello oficio.
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Avui, Dia Internacional de la Traducció, reivindiquem la traducció humana en un sector cada vegada més automatitzat, així com unes condicions justes. Cal ser més conscients que mai que l'associacionisme ens fa més forts i ens permet fer xarxa davant les adversitats. ✊
September 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Avui, Dia Internacional de la Traducció, reivindiquem la traducció humana en un sector cada vegada més automatitzat, així com unes condicions justes. Cal ser més conscients que mai que l'associacionisme ens fa més forts i ens permet fer xarxa davant les adversitats. ✊
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Online Event: International Translation Day 2025, Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis
📅30th Sept, Tues. 17h-19h BST via Zoom
Free & open to all (registration required)
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
📅30th Sept, Tues. 17h-19h BST via Zoom
Free & open to all (registration required)
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
Register now – International Translation Day 2025: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis – Zoom
International Translation Day 2025: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis – Zoom, Tue 30 Sep 2025 - Register for Online Event Series by Translation VillageInternational Translation Day...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Online Event: International Translation Day 2025, Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis
📅30th Sept, Tues. 17h-19h BST via Zoom
Free & open to all (registration required)
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
📅30th Sept, Tues. 17h-19h BST via Zoom
Free & open to all (registration required)
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
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¿Sabías que en España hay más de 11.500 cooperativas, que emplean a más de 230.000 personas?
La Marea presenta el proyecto Altacoop, el altavoz de las cooperativas, que abarca formación, reportajes y hasta un documental sonoro
La Marea presenta el proyecto Altacoop, el altavoz de las cooperativas, que abarca formación, reportajes y hasta un documental sonoro
Altacoop, un proyecto de ‘La Marea’ para amplificar la voz de las cooperativas | lamarea.com
El medio presenta este trabajo multidisciplinar, que abarca formación en materia de comunicación, reportajes periodísticos, píldoras y documental sonoro, y espacios de encuentro para visibilizar la labor de las organizaciones de la economía social.
www.lamarea.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
¿Sabías que en España hay más de 11.500 cooperativas, que emplean a más de 230.000 personas?
La Marea presenta el proyecto Altacoop, el altavoz de las cooperativas, que abarca formación, reportajes y hasta un documental sonoro
La Marea presenta el proyecto Altacoop, el altavoz de las cooperativas, que abarca formación, reportajes y hasta un documental sonoro
El proyecto recoge relatos de colectivos de trabajadores y trabajadoras en América Latina que amplían los significados de la tecnología mientras luchan por justicia social y celebra el poder de la imaginación para contar otros relatos sobre la tecnología, más allá de la ideología de Silicon Valley.
Lanzamiento de la historieta Otros Mundos Tecnológicos Son Posibles, con MTST - DigiLabour
DigiLabour y el Núcleo de Tecnología del Movimiento de Trabajadores Sin Techo (MTST) lanzan la historieta Otros Mundos Tecnológicos Son Posibles, Volumen 1. La historieta está disponible online en por...
digilabour.com.br
September 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
El proyecto recoge relatos de colectivos de trabajadores y trabajadoras en América Latina que amplían los significados de la tecnología mientras luchan por justicia social y celebra el poder de la imaginación para contar otros relatos sobre la tecnología, más allá de la ideología de Silicon Valley.
Now that summer is about to turn the corner, we are back and ready to lock in!
You can read our latest newsletter here:
You can read our latest newsletter here:
#7: We're back in the saddle 🎠
Summer was hot and long. Most of us were able to take some time off, and we hope you were able to do the same, but you may have noticed that there was no August edition of Textual Healing. This was a ...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Now that summer is about to turn the corner, we are back and ready to lock in!
You can read our latest newsletter here:
You can read our latest newsletter here:
"Each editor, translator or proofreader is a specialist in a certain 'genre language', and must be respected, valued, and paid appropriately for their expertise. You cannot simply AI your way out of that."
Article by Thalia Sutton. Follow our ongoing Translators Against the Machine open call!
Article by Thalia Sutton. Follow our ongoing Translators Against the Machine open call!
TATM #3: Proofreading Is Not "Quality Control": How Manga Language Professionals Became Exploited Data Workers, by Thalia Sutton - Guerrilla Media Collective
As literature moves online, translators, editors and proofreaders become subject to tech industry exploitation.
www.guerrillamedia.coop
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Each editor, translator or proofreader is a specialist in a certain 'genre language', and must be respected, valued, and paid appropriately for their expertise. You cannot simply AI your way out of that."
Article by Thalia Sutton. Follow our ongoing Translators Against the Machine open call!
Article by Thalia Sutton. Follow our ongoing Translators Against the Machine open call!
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♻️Transitioning to a circular economy — one built on reducing, reusing and recycling — can reduce environmental pressures while building a more resilient, efficient economic system.
👉 Here are 9 key insights: bit.ly/4pjGfTS #SystemsChangeLab
👉 Here are 9 key insights: bit.ly/4pjGfTS #SystemsChangeLab
September 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
♻️Transitioning to a circular economy — one built on reducing, reusing and recycling — can reduce environmental pressures while building a more resilient, efficient economic system.
👉 Here are 9 key insights: bit.ly/4pjGfTS #SystemsChangeLab
👉 Here are 9 key insights: bit.ly/4pjGfTS #SystemsChangeLab
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Great overview of the current AI landscape, its impact on workers, w/ mention of resisting efforts like @guerrillamedia.bsky.social Translators Against the Machine
AI companies warn their tech will wipe out huge numbers of jobs. But what are workers finding?
This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...
This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...
September 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Great overview of the current AI landscape, its impact on workers, w/ mention of resisting efforts like @guerrillamedia.bsky.social Translators Against the Machine
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'The quality of translations across the board, from video games to corporate communiques stands to decline, with AI output, according to interviewees, often being homogeneous, blind to local details, or flat-out wrong.'
“I find it disheartening that instead of a society that once valorized translators as intercultural communicators and professionals who could uphold a bilingual society, we're flattening culture with AI systems that don't allow for a more organic exchange between languages.”
AI Killed My Job: Translators
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.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
'The quality of translations across the board, from video games to corporate communiques stands to decline, with AI output, according to interviewees, often being homogeneous, blind to local details, or flat-out wrong.'
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AI can flood the internet, and even personal correspondence, with confusing content that could exacerbate polarization and mistrust, endangering our democracy.
How AI Threatens Democracy | Journal of Democracy
Generative AI can flood the media, internet, and even personal correspondence, sowing confusion for voters and government officials alike. If we fail to act, mounting mistrust will polarize our…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
AI can flood the internet, and even personal correspondence, with confusing content that could exacerbate polarization and mistrust, endangering our democracy.
"It’s not overly dramatic to say that we risk losing the capacity for cultures to understand one another better if we’re all simply feeding output into each other’s automated translation systems. These risks are existential enough that groups are organizing to push back."
Join us in TATM!
Join us in TATM!
AI Killed My Job: Translators
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.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"It’s not overly dramatic to say that we risk losing the capacity for cultures to understand one another better if we’re all simply feeding output into each other’s automated translation systems. These risks are existential enough that groups are organizing to push back."
Join us in TATM!
Join us in TATM!
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Many interesting testimonies about translators' working conditions going downhill in recent years are emerging around this post. Worth keeping an eye on them if you are a researcher too.
I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.
If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]
If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
August 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Many interesting testimonies about translators' working conditions going downhill in recent years are emerging around this post. Worth keeping an eye on them if you are a researcher too.
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My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI