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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What on earth did they do to Deepl? The interactive translation features is suddently? shockingly bad.

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Instituto Universitario de Estudios Feministas y de Género @ifemgen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🔎 Evaluación y verificación de la información en la práctica profesional de la traducción y la interpretación. Se agradecen respuestas al siguiente cuestionario para profesionales. En defensa de la traducción humana, más que nunca. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ¡Mil gracias!

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Evaluación crítica y verificación de la información en la práctica profesional de la traducción y la interpretación

La evaluación crítica y la verificación de la información son esenciales en el ejercicio profesional de la traducción y la interpretación, mucho más en estos tiempos de control algorítmico y desinform...

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Culoman @culoman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"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.

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Manuel de los Reyes @manueldelosreyes.com · 16/02/2026

«Los editores quieren trabajar con traductores profesionales, no con aficionados esporádicos; sin embargo, la remuneración en pocas ocasiones permite una profesionalización real. Esta paradoja, por sí misma, refleja una situación insostenible».

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Trnslation agencies keep asking translators to lower their rates. The request is nothing put of the ordinary. We get them all the time, true or tale. What never ceases to amaze me is the request that vendors take the burden on themselves so the agency keeps being profitable.

Screenshot of an email from a translation agency asking vendor to lower rates as the language industry is experiencing a challenging period.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Some life updates: As of October, I’ve officially transferred to URV to complete my PhD (hopefully soon!), and I’ve also started working as an Adjunct Professor at UAH. I’m really excited about both and deeply grateful to everyone who’s supported me along the way.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If experts in their fields are now using AI to read papers for them, then science has truly hit rock bottom.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Today I asked my translation students whether they thought it was fair to be paid per word when, in addition to the translation itself, the agency also profits from the translation memory (TM) that gets updated as they work. None of them thought it is normal not to be paid for updating the TM.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Oh yes, postediting, that task that is sold (and paid) as a (light) revision service but is overall as demanding as a translation task. It does not sound like a good deal to me.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hahaha you've got to love the Merriam-Webster

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EGAIR - European Guild for AI Regulation @egair.eu · 01/10/2025

OpenAI, one of the most prominent AI companies in the world, just released a model trained BLATANTLY on stolen IP. It's obvious that rights are being violated, and it's also obvious that existing enforcement is not preventing these violations: they press onward. The EU must enforce its rules

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"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."

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Manuel de los Reyes @manueldelosreyes.com · 30/09/2025

«Que los lectores sepan que existimos, que detrás de las traducciones que leen hay personas que aman los libros tanto como ellos, importa. Porque, si no se nos ve, es más fácil eliminarnos del proceso». Feliz #DíaInternacionalDeLaTraducción.

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APTIC @apticassociacio.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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. ✊

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

30 sep, Día Internacional de la Traducción: traductores en huelga en protesta por las condiciones de trabajo cada vez más precarias en las que tenemos que desarrollar nuestra actividad.

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Universitat Rovira i Virgili @urv.cat · 30/09/2025

#agendaURV | Inauguració del curs acadèmic a la Facultat de Lletres, a càrrec de l’escriptora Remedios Zafra, que impartirà la conferència “Los trabajos que amamos. Sobre el entusiasmo y la transformación del trabajo creativo”. 🗓️Demà, 1/10 🕚12h 📍Aula 202 campus Catalunya 👉https://goo.su/Xj0cZUz

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 29/09/2025

This is amazing news I’m so glad

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

¡Enhorabuena a todas! Todas las finalistas son traductorAs.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

We should stop using the term "translating" when we are talking about what automatic translation systems can do. What they do is processing texts (to try and replicate it using words from a different language). Translating is a human ability.

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Guerrilla Media Collective @guerrillamedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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...

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International Translation Day 2025: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis – Zoom, Tue 30 Sep 2025 - Register for Online Event Series by Translation VillageInternational Translation Day...

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

In Spanish, the snack or bite you have between meals is tentempié. It literally means 'keeps you standing'. Isn't language diversity beautiful.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2025

When they say ai is a time saver what that often means is that it’s a tool that makes it easier for you to waste someone else’s time.

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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The Economist @economist.com · 19/09/2025

“It would be foolish to think that general-purpose AI could transform the economy with only modest political consequences,” two academics from the University of Toronto argue in a guest essay

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Two scholars ask whether democracy can survive if AI does all the jobs

Without taxation there may be no representation, conclude Raymond Douglas and David Duvenaud

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2025

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It never ceases to amaze me that every AI implementation on any platform seems to boil down to just two types of user interaction: stealing them, i.e., users are never asked for consent. forcing them to actively resist, i.e, users must actively fight to avoid being exploited. All deeply unethical.

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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

'What do I do first?' As we outsource more of our skills and knowledge to AI I think this is a phrase that we will be hearing people say a lot.

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Morten Beckmann @mortenbeckmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Job opportunity: Two PhD Positions at Stockholm University, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Sweden. Deadline for application: October 15. Link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Doktorand i översättningsvetenskap

Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet är en av de större institutionerna inom Humanistiska fakulteten med ca 140 anställda och ca 5 000 studenter per läsår. Tolk- och översättarinstitu

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JustAnotherLemming @lifeofthemindless.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

As a former translator, the crucial thing AI will never be able to replace is the ability to discern specific personal or cultural meaning in a person’s choice of word or phrase, and incorporate that depth and richness of meaning in the translation. This applies as much to court as it does to poems.

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Lucy Lee Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

And to add, it has happened at lightning speed. Talented colleagues who specialize in their field have been made jobless within the past two years. Language has been handed over to big tech.

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

And that's really one of the biggest issues I have with AI: it trivializes everything and turns it into “content” that is “good enough,” turning everything into a worthless mush; just stuff to fill our (work)days. AI killed everyone's capacity to care about anything but the bottom line...

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Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!

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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

There's too much I want to re-quote from this amazingly written article. Everything is frustratingly true and I wish the translators and LSPs on the slop hype the train would read it.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators. If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: AIkilledmyjob@pm.me

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It is in the light of the otherness that you can see yourself. That's why the vision of people who studied languages and translation is a skill that go beyond 'knowing words'.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

In yet another chapter of how CAT tools were never designed with translators’ needs in mind, here we are in the year of our lord 2025 and you still need two tabs in Trados Live (one for the Online Editor and another for the termbase) just to update terms as you translate. *sigh*

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#amTranslating about mass killings in Gaza. Sick to my stomach.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

¿Qué recursos disponibles en línea o en papel le recomendaríais a alguien que no sabe nada de traducción editorial pero quiere hacer una propuesta para la traducción de un libro (de inglés a español)? Gracias.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Wouldn’t it be interesting for some researchers to analyse the new “Updated [Translation] Vendor Service Agreements” that have emerged in recent months, along with the current working conditions for translators and the power relations in the translation market?

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 07/07/2025

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Boycott all publishers using GenAi.

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The example Antoine Guillemain analyzes here clearly demonstrates that neither automatic translation nor computer-assisted translation (fuzzy matches) is ever intended to aid translators, they were designed to boost intermediaries’ margins and profits. shorturl.at/PF62u

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IA et traduction : une expérience bluffante !

Récemment, j’ai tapé ce texte (voir image, colonne de gauche) dans ChatGPT avec un prompt tout simple : « Traduis ». Le résultat m’a bluffé.

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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Solidarity with @abeba.bsky.social and gratitude for @meredithmeredith.bsky.social being at the right place at the right time with the ever present right attitude 💪🏻↘️

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 08/07/2025

my very honest unpopular opinion is that if i have a client who thinks machine translation can do my job i don’t want to work with them either? they obviously don’t value their own product enough to care about quality so why should i

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Noemí J. Furquet @noemijfurquet.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Esto me lo enseñaron en un taller de voluntariado sobre personas en riesgo de exclusión social y no se me olvidará en la vida.

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