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Poll: Do you use an AI agent to do minor tasks in your translation (such as removing redundant spaces)?
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Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 16:38
Lid 2009
English to German
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No 10:05

Bored to death... again.

There are trillions of other topics, but it seems like some people have only one. Sigh.

writeaway
Jennifer Levey
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Charlie Bavington
Claudio Machado Junior
Luis M. Sosa
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise  Identity Verified
Belgium
Local time: 16:38
Lid 2020
French to Dutch
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No 10:13

If we agree that AI can't be fully trusted - and as far as I know it can't be because of the simple fact that all AI applications have disclaimers - it also can't be fully trusted to do even these 'minor' tasks. Which means you have to check everything anyway. So why even bother?

Jennifer Levey
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
M. Anna Kańduła
Peter Motte
Zea_Mays
Claudio Machado Junior
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 15:38
Lid 2007
English to Portuguese
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Other 11:03

I naively thought I’d watched the final episode of the AI soap opera the day before yesterday, but as it turns out I was wrong…

Susanna Martoni
Thayenga
Claudio Machado Junior
 
Charlie Bavington
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Local time: 15:38
French to English
Vote with your feet 11:25

Thayenga wrote:

Bored to death... again.

There are trillions of other topics, but it seems like some people have only one. Sigh.


Whoever is spewing out this rancid poll vomit clearly isn't listening.
Don't vote, don't comment, leave for a week, and let's see if there's any change...
It's the same story as everywhere online - negative engagement is better than no engagement at all.

Claudio Machado Junior
 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 16:38
Lid 2009
English to German
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It's highly doubtful that it will cease 11:49

Charlie Bavington wrote:

...leave for a week, and let's see if there's any change...


Make it a year or perhaps a decade. Who knows how many of these one-topic-polls they're holding in reserve?

Charlie Bavington wrote:
It's the same story as everywhere online - negative engagement is better than no engagement at all.


That depends on the topic. There is presently a lot of negative - and dangerous - engagement in my country going on. Frankly, I could really do without it, but instead prefer no engagement at all..
 
Peter Motte
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Belgium
Local time: 16:38
Lid 2009
Dutch to Flemish
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No, too dangerous 12:18

You have to give AI agents far too much permissions to be able to be sure that nothing goes wrong.
Besides, if it are "minor" tasks, which productivity gain could they give?

Zea_Mays
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Charlie Bavington
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Local time: 15:38
French to English
for clarity 13:43

Thayenga wrote:

Charlie Bavington wrote:
It's the same story as everywhere online - negative engagement is better than no engagement at all.


That depends on the topic. There is presently a lot of negative - and dangerous - engagement in my country going on. Frankly, I could really do without it, but instead prefer no engagement at all..


I should have been clearer, I meant "better" for the person doing the posting, because engagement = reach and reach is what they want. I didn't mean better for us poor saps who have to read other people's drivel (here) or, worse, bilious invective (elsewhere).
Proz will be loving this, in a sense (he says, making them marginally happier with every keystroke )

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