Turkey's translators are training the AI tools that will replace them

> The new roles require much less skill and effort than translation, Türkmen said. For instance, she spent a year on her master’s thesis studying Samuel Beckett’s self-translation of his play Endgame from French to English. More recently, for her Ph.D. in translation studies, she studied for more than two years about the anti-feminist discourse in the Turkish translation of French author Pierre Loti’s 1906 novel, Les Désenchantées.

> In contrast, working on an AI prompt takes about 20 minutes.

> For every hour Türkmen works, she gets $20. That’s as much as a translator earns after spending roughly four hours converting two pages of densely written text into Turkish, according to Çevbir, the association of Turkish translators.

I hope they spoil the training data, if they can.