"And then, as everything AI started to slide down the long downwards slope of the hype cycle, my job came back." This corresponds with the what colleagues shared at the AVÜ meeting last weekend. Anecdotal evidence, but it is a silver lining at the end of the hype tunnel. #HumansNotMachines

🏘️ "En torno a un millar de personas habita ya en viviendas cooperativas en cesión de uso, un modelo en auge en los últimos años y que se presenta como una fórmula alternativa a la propiedad y el alquiler" 💚 Ens fa molt felices saber que som part d'aquesta transformació. Via @eldiario.es

"Machine translation hasn’t even improved with the advent of AI – contrary to the online hype, our industry never got its big OpenAI moment. I’m starting to suspect that we’ve been forced down this path by an unhappy coincidence of sunk costs and economic downturn."

“El medio ambiente estaba destruido antes de la guerra. Pero desde que comenzó, ha sido destruido varias veces por encima de la imaginación”, explica Yasser El-Nahhal, químico ambiental y ecotoxicólogo de la Universidad Islámica de Gaza.

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

“Internet fue concebido como un espacio abierto, colaborativo y sin fronteras... pero hoy está mediado por unas pocas corporaciones.” “Hablar de código abierto ya no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una apuesta ideológica y política.” ethic.es/codigo-abie... 1/2

Honored to be featured on the list that Metabolic included at the end of "Fertile Ground" as one of the organisations working to transform the economic system in Europe and beyond! 💚 Check out this inspiring mapping effort towards a just and fair transformation ✨ www.metabolic.nl/publications...

In this age of AI-generated, poor-quality texts all around the world, we firmly believe in higher-quality, human-rendered translations. ✨HAPPY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRANSLATION DAY✨ PS. Translators Against The Machine open call is still on: www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...

"Je commencerai par reconnaître ma situation de privilège : la raison la plus immédiate pour laquelle je n’utilise pas l’IA, c’est que j’exerce mon métier de traducteur dans de bonnes conditions."

AI hype is ruining the actual benefits of technology that can be utilized for human-centered, good, use cases. When the bubble inevitably bursts, I can't help but wonder how tech companies could ever recover because the trust with users is so broken now.

Feliz Día de la Traducción Humana. Un gran día para reflexionar, disfrutar y señalar con el dedo a todos los enemigos de clase y a todas las empresas ladronas que están acabando con este bello oficio.

Avui, Dia Internacional de la Traducció, reivindiquem la traducció humana en un sector cada vegada més automatitzat, així com unes condicions justes. Cal ser més conscients que mai que l'associacionisme ens fa més forts i ens permet fer xarxa davant les adversitats. ✊

Online Event: International Translation Day 2025, Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis 📅30th Sept, Tues. 17h-19h BST via Zoom Free & open to all (registration required) Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...

¿Sabías que en España hay más de 11.500 cooperativas, que emplean a más de 230.000 personas?  La Marea presenta el proyecto Altacoop, el altavoz de las cooperativas, que abarca formación, reportajes y hasta un documental sonoro

El proyecto recoge relatos de colectivos de trabajadores y trabajadoras en América Latina que amplían los significados de la tecnología mientras luchan por justicia social y celebra el poder de la imaginación para contar otros relatos sobre la tecnología, más allá de la ideología de Silicon Valley.

Now that summer is about to turn the corner, we are back and ready to lock in! You can read our latest newsletter here:

"Each editor, translator or proofreader is a specialist in a certain 'genre language', and must be respected, valued, and paid appropriately for their expertise. You cannot simply AI your way out of that." Article by Thalia Sutton. Follow our ongoing Translators Against the Machine open call!

♻️Transitioning to a circular economy — one built on reducing, reusing and recycling — can reduce environmental pressures while building a more resilient, efficient economic system. 👉 Here are 9 key insights: bit.ly/4pjGfTS #SystemsChangeLab

Great overview of the current AI landscape, its impact on workers, w/ mention of resisting efforts like @guerrillamedia.bsky.social Translators Against the Machine

'The quality of translations across the board, from video games to corporate communiques stands to decline, with AI output, according to interviewees, often being homogeneous, blind to local details, or flat-out wrong.'

AI can flood the internet, and even personal correspondence, with confusing content that could exacerbate polarization and mistrust, endangering our democracy.

"It’s not overly dramatic to say that we risk losing the capacity for cultures to understand one another better if we’re all simply feeding output into each other’s automated translation systems. These risks are existential enough that groups are organizing to push back." Join us in TATM!

Many interesting testimonies about translators' working conditions going downhill in recent years are emerging around this post. Worth keeping an eye on them if you are a researcher too.

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from! The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth

«Ahora bien, que la ideología tecnocapitalista nos haya hecho creer que somos máquinas sustituibles no significa que sea cierto. Muchas de las capacidades humanas no tienen equiparación con estos sistemas, aunque las funciones a las que nos han asignado sí pueden ser suplantadas».

Despite our best efforts to slow down and enjoy the summer, we're wrapping up a hectic month at GMC HQ. We had a presentation at the University of Leeds, but we've also wrapped up a couple of big projects in team EN, a book and report translations. Check it out here: textual-healing.ghost.io/6-we/

"Pero gracias a la IA podemos acceder a cosas que no se habrían traducido de otra forma". La traducción de la IA: Nunca tetas otra vez

"La vida desnuda, al capricho de los vapuleos capitalistas, del odio y la violencia, se retransmite en directo mientras los verdugos se vanaglorian de su garrote vil", escribe Azahara Polemeque.

To the folks who insist worker ownership isn't compatible with "human nature"—we have empirical research over decades that shows the exact opposite. Worker ownership and participation are linked to increases in satisfaction and productivity. Psychological ownership is a real, studied phenomenon.

On Wed 2 July, our member Alex attended the 11th European Society for Translation Studies Congress at the University of Leeds to talk about how our model and governance systems help us to resist precarity. What, you couldn't make it? No prob, here you have an account of it. Enjoy!

Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE. While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting. Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.

"La traducción simultánea con IA ofrece una calidad muy deficiente en el 98,89% de los discursos pronunciados en conferencias internacionales [...] y en el 100% de los casos genera errores que pueden dañar gravemente la reputación de la organización, e incluso dar lugar a incidentes diplomáticos".

Patios hacia la transición ecosocial; participación y renaturalización de centros educativos cooperativos. Guía metodológica www.altekio.es/patios-en-tr...

Translation isn't expensive. In fact, it's frequently the biggest return on investment: For the top 100 grossing movies of all time, 50% of their profits were made outside of English, and they spent less than 1% of their budget on localization.

Cities Beyond Growth es un curso gratuito en línea de 6 semanas para aprender a crear ciudades más justas y ecológicas. Apúntate ya. El curso comienza el 8 de octubre 🌿 www.tni.org/en/event/cit... 🌿 (El curso se impartirá en inglés con traducción simultánea al español)

Today is the day! We will be at #ESTLeeds in Session 7 (13:30-15:00) in Roger Stevens LT.21. Our presentation: "Resisting Precarity: An Innovative Business and Governance Model for Language Workers". Cannot attend? No worries, we will talk about it in the next newsletter. Hope to see you there! 🎇

“No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place.” 🚩Shut. 🚩It. 🚩Down. 🧿It is broken because it was trained on our words… 🧿And we aren’t that smart, anymore.

Una ética para la inteligencia artificial: libertad, feminismo y ecologismo. Por @luortizdezarate.bsky.social‬ #revistaPapeles 164 www.fuhem.es/2024/01/22/u...

This is a nice piece on the backlash to AI, which has persisted so long that it might simply be considered the norm at this point "As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate." www.wired.com/story/genera...

We have a new #handbook! It is a beta version and we still need to make it ✨look better✨ (working on visuals atm) but we decided it was time to update it and showcase it for future references. drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...

Carta abierta de escritores dirigida a Penguin Random House, HarperCollins y a otras editoriales estadounidenses para que se pronuncien públicamente a favor de los derechos de los autores y en contra del robo perpetrado por las tecnológicas a través de sus modelos de IA generativa.

What is Feminist Economics? How can we acknowledge the often invisible work that underpins the capitalist economy and apply this approach to a translation and communication collective? Read more: textual-healing.ghost.io/4-how-we-do-...

"A punto están los publicistas de inventarse un spot en el que personas como usted y como yo, que aún no hemos incorporado la inteligencia artificial (IA) a nuestras vidas, quedemos como ignorantes". La columna de Elvira Lindo social.elpais.com/1gk0a5

«Hay que (...) visibilizar la precarización del sector en un contexto que nos deja a merced (...) de una interpretación tan restrictiva de la ley de libre competencia (...) que ni siquiera permite a nuestras asociaciones profesionales recomendar (...) tarifas». 📚 www.eldiario.es/cultura/libr...

Second Edition of 'Think Like a Commoner' now published! In these dire times of uncertainty and chaos, it is more important than ever to join the Commonsverse and hope for a better future. Start to think, feel and act like a commoner! Learn more: thinklikeacommoner.com @davidbollier.bsky.social

Has it been rough for you too? Find out more about how to join Translators against the Machine: #Localization #Translation #xl8

Translators against the Machine is an initiative run by @guerrillamedia.bsky.social to share our experiences navigating the ever-changing localization industry. I've been a translator for 7+ years and since the launch of ChatGPT things have been crazy. Read my (candid) piece: #Translation #xl8