When freelancer M took on what she thought was a manga translation job at a new company, she was unpleasantly surprised to find that the actual work turned out to be something else entirely.
“They told me they wanted me to just edit AI translations,” said M, who works with major publishers and wished to stay anonymous.?
While translators have been asked to simply “edit” pregenerated translations — a process called machine translation post-editing (MTPE) — for years, earlier iterations were often rejected outright, she said.
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