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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Strictly human art 08:23

I’ve never translated literature (except for some children books) and I am an avid reader. If I happen to know that a book was translated using AI, I will not buy it. It’s disrespectful to the author and shouldn’t be allowed. Literature is strictly human art!

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Thayenga
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Human only! 12:47

I have translated literature before. Therefore, I know that there is one thing AI can never be trained to learn, and that is to read between the lines, to catch the various emotions or conflicts, and translate them so that the reader will end up feeling the same way about the book/story that the one did who read the original. There is - and never will be - no such thing as AE = Artificial Emotions.

[Edited at 2026-09-18 15:27 GMT]

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expressisverbis
expressisverbis
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AI for literary translation??? 15:41

Of course. Let AI read the book, translate it, edit it, publish it, write the author's biography, give itself five stars and then interview itself about the creative process. 😂
 


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