AI didn’t take your job, you priced yourself out of the market.
I’ve been on the technical side of delivering translation for better than 35 years. In that time I’ve had to adapt and learn new technologies as fast as they came out. What started as a challenging, if poorly paid, position has morphed into being a TV producer, director, camera operator, audio, lighting and video tech, translation specialist, computer programmer, network admin, and client handler.
In that same 35 years interpreters and translators haven’t changed one iota: still handsomely paid, catered to, self-righteous and entitled; still prima donnas who reek of imagined superiority.
Now I read about AI “taking” work from them? Guess what - AI won’t fall asleep while on the job. AI won’t shut down because it can’t see what kind of mic a speaker is using or there’s no water in the booth. AI won’t whinge and whine because lunch isn’t provided. AI won’t bitch because their hotel room is too hot/cold/noisy/near the pool/near the elevator/on too high a floor/on too low a floor, or show up to work uselessly hung over.
Suck it up, buttercup, we’ve all had a tough go since Reagan and Thatcher decided corporations and profit outweighed the needs of people. You’ve been pampered forever, now, you have to work. Tough it out and learn to deal with it or fuck off.
isaaclyman@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Agreed. If a company says “we’ve automated this job and it’s now done by AI,” they mean “we’ve decided to take advantage of media trends by dramatically lowering the quality and reliability of our processes, consistent with our stance of doing things as cheaply as our customers will tolerate.”