Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing – The Markup

Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing – The Markup

Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Last November, The Bookseller reported Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning, owned by publishing titan Simon & Schuster, was testing the use of artificial intelligence to help translate several of its books to English. The news set off a ripple of anxiety…

Professionals report that translations are used without respect for copyright and against intellectual property law

AI and literary translation

In a thoughtful reply to my claims regarding the advances in automatic translation, Roger Greenwald (Letters, March 28) quotes a sentence from Proust and shows convincingly the difficulties GPT-4 has with point of view and style. Nevertheless, with a very little editing, we would have a passable version of an extremely complex sentence. No one is suggesting we rely on AI for translations of the world’s greatest stylists, but it’s worth rememberi…