Tag: chatgpt
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Can Industry–Academia Collaboration Find a Fair MTPE Pricing Model Without Addressing What “Fair” Means and Without Asking Translators?
I just finished reading an academic paper entitled “In search of a fair MTPE pricing model: LSPs’ reflections and the implications for translators.” The study examines machine translation post-editing (MTPE) pricing through a focus group of eight representatives of commercial intermediaries, referred to in the study as Language Service Providers (LSPs). The participating companies were…
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From Booking Apps to AI: Why Technological Change Is Intensifying Precarity in Outsourced Public Service Interpreting
In the previous parts of this series, I share insights from my PhD research at the University of Leeds on inequalities in the outsourced public service interpreting. In their responses to a national survey, interpreters described significant challenges affecting working conditions, pay, and professional stability in UK Public Service Interpreting (PSI). Survey findings highlighted widespread…
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We Need a Fair Translation Industry — Not Complicit Collaboration nor “Adaptability” to Exploitation
By Fardous Bahbouh, Researcher & Consultant on Labour Rights, Public Policy, and the Political Economy of the Translation Industry The translation and interpreting industry, and some academics, keep talking about adaptability, flexibility, and collaboration. But these buzzwords often mask a deeper problem: exploitation. What we need is fairness, not compliance to algorithms or precarious systems.…
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