Post #32471
2025-12-05 06:47 UTC
There is no inherent value in it. A translation only makes sense if enough people will buy and read it to make it worth the effort and cost.
But I do think (actually fear), we’ll soon get AI-translated e-books where you can select the language at checkout.
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@ganymede@lemmy.ml 2025-12-05 06:52
and the translation will get progressively shitter the further into the story you go cos the compute resources start getting rate limited lol
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@solrize@lemmy.ml 2025-12-05 06:52
For literary fiction, machine translation is near worthless. For tech stuff and maybe some nonfiction, it can be usable with some human cleanup. But ideally you can do the machine translation on your own computer if that’s what you want.
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@treadful@lemmy.zip 2025-12-05 07:37
But I do think (actually fear), we’ll soon get AI-translated e-books where you can select the language at checkout. Hey, that might be one of the few things LLMs are properly suited for.