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[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
Baran, you're talking to the artist formerly known as Ice Scream here, literally nothing of what he writes is to be taken seriously. His goal here is to provide l
Plenty of small boats you could take across the channel, Baran… Maybe bring a life jacket rather than a hard hat. Hi viz might be a bad idea, but a pair of scissors would be handy once y
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
Did you notice that the dude who broke the 100k record 2 years ago had a total of 4 or 5 forum posts? He buckled down, didn't complain about AI, kept schtum and h
[quote]Denis Fesik wrote:
I'm not sure if everyone here sees what I see in my forum feed, but my current feed is chock-full of threads about techy stuff (tools, bots & Co.) and no longer
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
But nothing can convince me that it's a "good and efficient business mentality" to assign jobs randomly on a first-come-first-served basis. As an agency, you
I would put it down to some people's email downloading more frequently.
I can't see any reason for bots to be involved, unless they are just making up jobs to make people feel more and<
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
I don't believe that clients monitor forum posts.
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That explains why you've earned a grand total of £67 from clien
I paid for membership last year for the first time in a decade, pretty much for a bet. After all, it's only £100, less than a morning's work, how could you not earn that back in a yea
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
You don't often post in the forums, so paying $150 to skip the waiting period before your posts appear wouldn't seem worth it. [/quote]
Verified non-paying m
[quote]Rita Translator wrote:
generating fictional quotes is also how human-written press releases often work.[/quote]
I imagine Peter knows this. His point was more that we as trans
[quote]P.L.F. Persio wrote:
My favourite symphony is Beethoven's 7th, the fourth movement always put me in an excellent mood, especially in this wonderfully energetic, outstanding, and jo
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
And then there was this literally live saving piece (it is used for getting the rhythm for heart massage) with funny video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbh
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
I have found, when trying to explain something to a client, that it helps if I concede one point.
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Obviously I would never make a concession as su
[quote]Christine Andersen wrote:
In the end it´s the client´s text. They will mess it up if they want to, so don´t lose sleep over it!
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They will indeed, and I don't lo
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
Does Proz prefer that we report it to an EU data protection authority instead, leading to potential fines? [/quote]
I think t
Buy less stuff.
I recently discovered that Port Talbot steelworks just along the coast from us singlehandedly puts out 2% of total UK carbon emissions. So it's not just about transport,
[quote]Rachel Waddington wrote:
The point of a plant-based diet is that it would take far *less* cultivated land to feed us all on plants than on meat. Cutting out beef in particular is o
[quote]IrinaN wrote:
how exactly could I have reached Mount Fuji, Chechen Itza, The Cape of Good Hope, Pyramids, Louvre and Prado by rail from Houston, TX? You may be content to live with
[quote]Keith Jackson wrote:
the rates are as follows:
• Translation: $0.045 USD per word
• Proofreading/QA: $0.025 USD per word
Our client insists on working exclusively
I forgot to add a tip, which would be turn down/off the heating/aircon. That has to be our biggest energy use.
I’ve always thought it would be better to upgrade bits of my PC than
[quote]Anna Sarah Krämer wrote:
I'm sure you all will forgive dragging this thread out of its shallow grave, for some studies in anthropology maybe?
I've stopped translating marketi
[quote]Rachel Waddington wrote:
For example:
Plant-based catering at translator events
Encouraging translators to travel to conferences by rail
Running climate literacy courses
[quote]Rachel Waddington wrote:
Also: if you are a member of a translation association, push them to do more.
Individual actions don't amount to much, but if we come together as a
[quote]Peter Motte wrote:
It's not only the automation. I became faster myself.
E.g.: I don't use speech recognition. I have it, but I rarely use it. [/quote]
It would be strange if
Every time we accept a job we enter into a contract, so it being in writing doesn't have to be a big deal. You just need to read it and see if there's anything you don't like. You could al
[quote]Cilian O'Tuama wrote:
Here is an entire(!) chat I had with ChatGPT only yesterday.
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Me
Do either (or perhaps both) of the words "gyros" and gyrus" contain the letter O?
[quote]Philippe Locquet wrote:
At no point this experiment was aimed at finding terms or help with text translations. Please watch the video so it make sense to you ( I have set the link
[quote]Philippe Locquet wrote:
Let me know if it worked for you, I'd love to hear about it.
And to be honest, I think that's a great place for AI at the moment, do the chores we want to
I spent ages checking and rating all the different translations of an overly long text. What a waste of everyone's time if there is no winner.
Why not ask someone who didn't enter to judg
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
You are missing the point. If a client wishes that his text is checked for grammar and spelling only, and he pays for that exact service, then that is what
What is meant by revising, correcting, checking, editing, proofreading and so on clearly varies from customer to customer and job to job, so just charge by the hour for whatever it is they
Finally a contest in one of my languages, but what a waste of everyone's time entering and voting when not a single winner was chosen for translation of the Norwegian text into any lan
Interesting. While this may say something about the impact of AI, the perceived decline in jobs on here has been going on for many years. Are there any longer-term stats to challenge that
[quote]Dan Lucas wrote:
To go back to your point, in terms of our pair I do consider the risk-averse nature of Japanese society to be a specific factor that exacerbates this general tende
[quote]George Trail wrote:
Is this the state of the translation industry today? I don't know about you but I don't know how much longer I can cling on. I'm talking about CAT tools - but a
Sorry, that rant was almost ChatGPT essay length. So I just asked ChatGPT: "Please improve the grammar and syntax and style of the following text and make it half the length:"
And here
I've had extensive exposure to ChatGPT in the past week.
First, I watched a few talks in ProZ's AI Expo: two on CAT tools that use AI, one on free AI tools, one on ProZ's own Pastey, o
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
Often, the person who puts my translation online will copy and paste the copy, but just types the title in, because it's quicker to type than to copy/paste. And t
[quote]Philippe Mercier wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
[quote]Philippe Mercier wrote:
Answer : No privacy issues: we are using only the pro version of ChatGPT, which
You literally copy and paste text into Pastey, which translates it using ChatGPT based on your predefined prompts, and then paste the translation back into your application.
It’s very
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