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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 17h

Oh yes, postediting, that task that is sold (and paid) as a (light) revision service but is overall as demanding as a translation task. It does not sound like a good deal to me.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 8d

Hahaha you've got to love the Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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EGAIR - European Guild for AI Regulation @egair.eu · 8d

OpenAI, one of the most prominent AI companies in the world, just released a model trained BLATANTLY on stolen IP.

It's obvious that rights are being violated, and it's also obvious that existing enforcement is not preventing these violations: they press onward.

The EU must enforce its rules

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 9d

"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."

Clément Martin @clement-martin.fr · 9d

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-...

Affiche rouge avec le slogan « translators are not traitors » et les mots « translators not AI » en surbrillance.

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Manuel de los Reyes @manueldelosreyes.com · 9d

«Que los lectores sepan que existimos, que detrás de las traducciones que leen hay personas que aman los libros tanto como ellos, importa. Porque, si no se nos ve, es más fácil eliminarnos del proceso».

Feliz #DíaInternacionalDeLaTraducción.

Pilar Ramírez Tello @pramireztello.bsky.social · 10d

En la revista Calidoscopio, de la Asociación Argentina de Traductores e Intérpretes (AATI), han tenido la amabilidad de hacerme una entrevista. Qué maravilla aparecer en un número tan interesante 😊 aati.org.ar/novedades/bo...

Calidoscopio 2025 - n.° 76 | AATI - Asociación Argentina de Traductores e Intérpretes

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APTIC @apticassociacio.bsky.social · 10d

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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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 9d

30 sep, Día Internacional de la Traducción: traductores en huelga en protesta por las condiciones de trabajo cada vez más precarias en las que tenemos que desarrollar nuestra actividad.

Esperluverte @esperluverte.fr · 10d

Traductrice en grève ! Bonne Saint-Jérôme, les collègues ✊

Traducteurs et traductrices mobilisées pour la Saint-Jérôme !

Pour en finir avec la précarité des métiers de la traduction, pour améliorer nos conditions de travail et d’existence, pour refuser l’IA et le monde qu’elle nous impose, une action est nécessaire : NON nous n’avons pas le droit de grève mais OUI nous sommes mobilisées et mobilisés !
Cette journée du 30 septembre sera consacrée à des mobilisations, rassemblements et temps d’échange au sein de la profession, partout en France.

Les conditions socio-économiques des traducteurs et des traductrices se dégradent, les droits nous manquent, beaucoup d’entre nous continuent à être sous-payées et sous-payés, et AUCUN d’entre nous ne bénéficie de protection sociale complète.

Nous n’avons pas :
– d’assurance chômage
– de médecine du travail
– de congés payés
– de tarif plancher
– de temps de travail maximum hebdomadaire
– de jours fériés

71% des personnes ayant répondu à la dernière enquête de l’ATLF (ouverte aux non-adhérents et adhérentes) s’estiment dans une situation de précarité, et les chiffres montrent que les conditions de travail se dégradent encore. 40% des traducteurs et des traductrices ont déjà connu un burn-out ou un état dépressif, contre 34% des salariés. Les traducteurs et traductrices ne prennent en moyenne que de 3,2 semaines de congés (non payés) par an.
L’analyse de l’enquête est à retrouver ici : https://atlf.org/https-atlf-org-wp-content-uploads-2025-07-enquete-2025-1-1-pdf/

(suite du alt dans le blousque suivant)

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Universitat Rovira i Virgili @urv.cat · 9d

#agendaURV | Inauguració del curs acadèmic a la Facultat de Lletres, a càrrec de l’escriptora Remedios Zafra, que impartirà la conferència “Los trabajos que amamos. Sobre el entusiasmo y la transformación del trabajo creativo”.

🗓️Demà, 1/10
🕚12h
📍Aula 202 campus Catalunya

👉https://goo.su/Xj0cZUz

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 10d

This is amazing news I’m so glad

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 10d

¡Enhorabuena a todas! Todas las finalistas son traductorAs.

ACE Traductores @acetraductores.bsky.social · 10d

En la víspera del #DíaInternacionaldelaTraducción anunciamos los nombres de las finalistas del #PremioEstherBenítez de traducción en su edición número veinte:
1/8

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tante @tante.cc · 11d

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.

futurism.com

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 11d

We should stop using the term "translating" when we are talking about what automatic translation systems can do. What they do is processing texts (to try and replicate it using words from a different language). Translating is a human ability.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 13d

So good to see you here!

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Guerrilla Media Collective @guerrillamedia.bsky.social · 16d

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...

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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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 17d

In Spanish, the snack or bite you have between meals is tentempié. It literally means 'keeps you standing'. Isn't language diversity beautiful.

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18d

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."

A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17d

When they say ai is a time saver what that often means is that it’s a tool that makes it easier for you to waste someone else’s time.

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 18d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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The Economist @economist.com · 20d

“It would be foolish to think that general-purpose AI could transform the economy with only modest political consequences,” two academics from the University of Toronto argue in a guest essay

Two scholars ask whether democracy can survive if AI does all the jobs

Without taxation there may be no representation, conclude Raymond Douglas and David Duvenaud

econ.st

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21d

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 1

Reading so much here about skilled, deeply experienced translators being reduced to much-lower-paying machine translation post-editing (MTPE) — fixing a first-round AI translation.

Reminds me of the tremendous labor + frustration of *undoing* a bad copyedit (whether performed by human or machine)

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

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 21d

It never ceases to amaze me that every AI implementation on any platform seems to boil down to just two types of user interaction: stealing them, i.e., users are never asked for consent. forcing them to actively resist, i.e, users must actively fight to avoid being exploited.
All deeply unethical.

Nia Soler @niasoler.bsky.social · 21d

LinkedIn va a entrenar –o ya lo está haciendo– su IA generativa con los datos de sus usuarios. Para "impedir" esto hay que ir a [configuración]>>>[privacidad de datos]>>>[datos para mejorar la IA generativa] y desactivar esta opción que está habilitada por defecto.

Actualización de las condiciones y uso de datos de LinkedIn

A partir del 3 de noviembre de 2025, usaremos algunos de tus datos de LinkedIn para mejorar nuestra IA que genera contenido con el fin de mejorar tu experiencia, a menos que decidas autoexcluirte en los ajustes. Además, vamos a actualizar nuestras condiciones. Consulta las novedades y cómo gestionar tus datos.

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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 22d

'What do I do first?' As we outsource more of our skills and knowledge to AI I think this is a phrase that we will be hearing people say a lot.

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 22d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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Morten Beckmann @mortenbeckmann.bsky.social · 23d

Job opportunity: Two PhD Positions at Stockholm University, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Sweden. Deadline for application: October 15. Link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet är en av de större institutionerna inom Humanistiska fakulteten med ca 140 anställda och ca 5 000 studenter per läsår. Tolk- och översättarinstitu

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JustAnotherLemming @justanotherlemming.bsky.social · Aug 22

As a former translator, the crucial thing AI will never be able to replace is the ability to discern specific personal or cultural meaning in a person’s choice of word or phrase, and incorporate that depth and richness of meaning in the translation. This applies as much to court as it does to poems.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hard agree.

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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · Aug 22

And to add, it has happened at lightning speed. Talented colleagues who specialize in their field have been made jobless within the past two years. Language has been handed over to big tech.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

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

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