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Chinese language translators and interpreters share their experiences with AI and thoughts on potentially being replaced by it.

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Yaling Jiang
Mar 17, 2023
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My very first full-time job was a competition with machines. Back in 2015, I was hired as a contractor by an international online travel agency as an English content editor. I didn’t know until later that it was an internal A/B test. And humans lost.

I dreaded the work — checking out boxes and writing descriptions of 30 Chinese hotels every day — I felt …

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