#humantranslation

One of the things AI translation is spectacularly bad at is character voice. A character in a novel does not merely say things. They have habits. Favourite turns of phrase. Odd little colloquialisms. A particular rhythm. Maybe they are dry, breathless, pompous, tender, sarcastic, provincial, flamboyant, or gloriously weird. AI tends to turn all of that into statistically plausible soup. A human translator can look at a character and think: No. This is how this person talks. And then recreate that voice in another language without losing what made it theirs in the first place. That is what translation is supposed to do: change the language while keeping the person. This is one of the reasons I am still fighting for human translation, especially for literature, science, and all the wonderfully strange things that deserve better than AI slop. And yes, I am still trying to keep my little human translation business afloat. 🌱 If you would like to help me keep doing this work, my fundraiser is here: 💜 [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus] Sharing it helps enormously, too. Every little signal that human translation still matters counts. 🐙📚 #HumanTranslation #TranslationMatters #LiteraryTranslation #NoAI #SupportHumanWork

I’m about to start a week I’m really not looking forward to. I’ve tried to get the money from the people who literally owe me money. They said they couldn't. I’ve done everything else I can reasonably do. And I’m still short. Quite a bit short. So, one last try. This is my donation link: [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=14] This explains what is happening to translators thanks to AI: [https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Machine-Ate-My-Job-and-Apparently-Im-Suppose-A6V725QY58] It’s not for a holiday. It’s not for some shiny new toy. It’s to help me keep standing while I fight to keep my fully human, AI-free translation and teaching business alive. I’m still here. Still translating. Still teaching. Still stubbornly insisting that humans are not obsolete just because someone put a language model in a server rack. But right now, I honestly don’t know what comes after this. I'm literally with my back to the wall now. If you can help, thank you. If you can’t, please don’t feel guilty. I’m just putting one more flare into the dark. 🟣 #SupportHumanWork #AIFree #HumanTranslation #Translation #Teaching #FreelanceLife #SmallBusiness #KeepGoing #MutualAid #QueerBusiness #Berlin

Good morning. 🌻 My fight to keep my fully human, no-AI translation business alive is still going. I translate. I teach. I work with actual words, actual context, actual people. No algorithmic word soup. No “close enough” machine sludge. No AI slop wearing a little business suit. What would help right now is a little support with my running costs while I keep fighting to make this work. If you’d like to support a tiny human business refusing to let AI eat its lunch, you can do that here: ☕ [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=0] Every coffee helps keep the lights on, the servers running, and one stubborn human translator at work. 💜 #HumanTranslation #NoAI #SupportSmallBusiness #AI #FreelanceTranslator