This has the strong feeling of truth about it. I don't believe all the CEO hype for AI replacing jobs, they're not idiots and they know the tech isn't remotely up to snuff, and this seems like a far more plausible reason for the enthusiasm.

"Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push" #HumansNotMachines

On Saturday, I experienced a live game as a blind supporter does. It was one of the most fascinating days I've had in football. These are the things I learned, and some of them are important. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Tomorrow I'm at Wigan for a piece with a difference. Am accompanying a registered blind supporter for the day. I'll have glasses that replicate his experience and use audio equipment to tell the story of live football for the blind and understand how technology is improving.

La IA es el futuro, no se puede hacer nada, la vas a usar quieras o no.

"Translation is not solving a puzzle with a single, correct answer [...] each time translation plays out, a translator has to make countless interpretive decisions about style, atmosphere, voice, symbolism, metaphor, allusion and more." #HumansNotMachines #LoveYourTranslator

"Sin talento humano, la IA es solo código" Gracias por admitir que es la IA la que necesita traductores y que los traductores no necesitan IA.

The non-foul as well.

Sounds like a plan.

Having to fix AI/machine translation is more work than just translating from scratch.

the british government not only hates me because I'm foreign, but also it wants to give away my stuff for free to billionaires

And the people "checking" AI slop are paid less than for translating, while it is usually just as much work, and often a lot more work, to "check" and rewrite slop than to translate from scratch.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

Nobody who has said "don't worry, we have a human check everything the AI puts out" has ever been telling the truth. If you paid humans to check it rigorously enough to match the previous human quality you would immediately lose all the money you saved and defeat the purpose

To translate is to leave something, almost everything, out. Translation is a conscious process where the elements that are put aside are as important as those that we choose to keep. AI, thus, cannot translate because it is incapable of understanding the act of leaving behind.

See also: AI to write and summarise novels and make films. Robots to walk your dog, play with your kids, nurse your parents. We're taking away the things that make you human, imagination, joy, and connection, so you can GET BACK TO WORK. It's never a robot to cook dinner while I read a book, is it?

"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." archive.is/hvRv2

But it’s being used for so many crappy and evil things I am honestly against even using it for things it would be ostensibly useful for.

Pleased to announce I've been hired to do the marketing for this campaign

A big yes to the offering of live audio description for today’s FA Cup match between Arsenal and Aston Vill. Such a big step in the right direction for accessibility of the women’s game 🙌

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Directly responsible for the demise of dozens of companies and recording studios which had made London the go-to place in Europe for dubbing and voiceovers. Great.

Finally reading this great essay on what translators do and what language is! This part in particular hit home for me.

We translate books because reading, writing, creating, sharing with others, bridging cultures and communicating are human activities that give us a reason to live. Take the human element out, and what even is the point? Why do it if humans are not enjoying the process or the product?

Yeah, accessibility is low hanging fruit for AI, because no one really wants to pay for it. The attitude is “we HAVE to do it, but we don’t have to do it WELL”. 😏

By which I mean AI essays are just you capering in your jesters' bells for the emperor. Instead you should be getting smashed & setting off tens of thousands of pounds worth of fireworks all at once in an empty building. Light up the skyline. Cause mayhem.

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Also include audio description in this. I queued up The Man Who Invented Christmas last year, interested to hear how they approached the AD, and while the description writing was fine, the voice was AI and felt spooky. That's taking a job from a voice actor and insulting the blind audience.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Times births column today

now ive been in the workforce for a while, so I'm not surprised that some of you might not be aware of this "hack": when your boss says, hey, are you easily replaceable by a computer, you say no. you don't say yes. that is what we call "a whoopsie"

ah! maybe that is a big part of it. writing is a technology we invented to store something we evolved to create: spoken language. obvious LLM writing *has no speaker*. 'steady progress, gentle pacing' are words without a speaker. they are just words in themselves.

Something with Roman numerals? All I've got is Charlus I.

Youtubes Auto dubbing is surely one of the worst features anywhere ever.

1. quick deepl/human comparison for you. This is from my current project on state sexual violence against Greenlandic women, which is obviously pretty sensitive stuff.

I wish surveys would stop asking me if I'd recommend something to a friend. I never recommend anything to friends so I always tick no. If you want to know if I like the product just ask me if I like the product.

So, we’re raising a glass to the Lionesses, ITV and Guinness, Channel 4 and inclusion. Goal-den. 5/5

@nathanaclark.bsky.social @windycoys.bsky.social I'm sure you've seen / heard Takai saying his name at the beginning of the medical day vid. IMO the key thing with GB > JP and back is keep in mind that vowels are just gaps between consonants. The rhythm is very quick and staccato...

This reminds me that my favourite Inspirals song is the one with Mark E Smith.

I wrote a piece about my time at UK Games Expo this year, tiny languages, and being autistic. I hope it conveys what I wanted it to. It's called CAT, PLANT, MONSTER: www.timclarepoet.co.uk/uk-games-exp...

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This article does a great job of showing how inferior machine translation is and the sheer drudgery and frustration of being expected to post-edit rather than just allowing human translators to do their thing from the start, since like all creative work, people are so much better at it than AI.

Last night I attended the #OneVoiceAwards2025 honoured to have been shortlisted for 3 awards. Well, I won the #OVA25 award: ‘Best TV / Web Commercial (male)’ for the Poppy Appeal Campaign. Thanks to my awesome agents @damngoodvoices.bsky.social and to Leagas Delaney and The Royal British Legion.

You’ll never catch me supporting AI anything. I’m an audio description writer worried about losing my work to this absolute crap.

Why wouldn't you want a person to earn a living, being paid modestly for providing a service which is enjoyable for them to do, and enjoyable for an audience to listen to? Why would you decide it's better to reduce the amount of human pleasure and satisfaction involved in the process?

I'm tired of translation colleagues (who are often in the older generation) saying "AI won't take your job, it's not good enough to replace us"--BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER. It doesn't matter that gen AI is terrible at translation, that it constantly makes mistakes, managers are gonna push it anyway.

In past times, not crediting your translators was a power move to attract more clients, because if a game had good loc reviews and the only name displayed was your agency, that would mean more potential games. Nowadays, it is also a tool to silence us and replace us with machine translation.

Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.