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→ Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them
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“The trends are global. In November, the Netherlands’ largest publisher announced it would use AI to translate certain books, with humans only involved in light edits. In the UK, over a third of 12,500 translators said they have lost work to machines.”

A smartphone displaying a webpage for "Outlier" with text about shaping the next generation of AI, placed on a stack of Turkish magazines and books featuring various titles and dates.
Rest of World · Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace themHuman fallout may include being replaced by LLMs, diminished skills, and fewer career options for all but the elite scholars.
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@fracofavor

It is not easy to accidently turn on Translate in Mastodon. You have to go a layer deep in settings, to set your posting language to the language your mastodon app uses.

It doesn't say it's to turn on "offering to translate" - click here.

It doesn't announce you turned on translate for your readers, your posts.

Mastodon should have an obvious button, "TURN ON Translate" or some such, in a platonic way.

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@martinrust @ligniform @Em0nM4stodon
Aha, I see. I setup LibreTranslate now.
I run my own Docker container of LibreTranslate and configured Mastodon to use it. In the terminal it works.. But in Tusky, it seems I get 503 error. But Mastodon doesn't say why a 503.

[31/Oct/2024:13:37:49 +0100] "POST /api/v1/statuses/113400023547101567/translate HTTP/2.0" 503 44 "-" "Tusky/26.2 Android/14 OkHttp/4.12.0" "mastodon.melroy.org" 0.017