Good. Poison the well, fuck this toxic industry. Burst the bubble.
This is very important. I’m in a situation where the work I used to do is supposed to be taken over by the shitrobot. On a job platform now 15% of the job offers are the original work, 85% is AI slop fixing in one way or another. This led me on a 2-year odyssey of trying manual work (too weak), being really poor (getting better at that), and finally deciding that if I’m forced to serve the shitrobot to avoid starving I’ll serve it badly. Btw so far I’ve managed to avoid these jobs, may it remain so.
That said, if you are in need of a real human translator for tech or creative EN-DE projects do contact me, I’d be glad to keep doing work that makes sense!
I absolutely despise morons who smugly pronounce language learning and translation work “solved”, while at the same time not bothering to learn any language beside their native one. And most often not bothering to use that one well, as well. You can tell so easily they have no idea what they are missing out on.
I hope it’s all going to end in style of tower of Babel event. I know that it won’t, but hey.
Wish you the best for your field of work.
“If these companies want quality data, then they should offer quality contracts,” Alice continued. “Instead they’re low-balling struggling people, employing them for the barest possible amount of time and tossing them aside as projects are finished with no warning.”
Pay peanuts, get monkeys. Or minimum viable product for that price range, if you want to put it more fancy.
They’re just using AI to do their job more efficiently, what’s the problem?
