Poll: Do you use an AI agent to do minor tasks in your translation (such as removing redundant spaces)? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you use an AI agent to do minor tasks in your translation (such as removing redundant spaces)?".
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Thayenga 
Njemačka
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Bored to death... again.
There are trillions of other topics, but it seems like some people have only one. Sigh.
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Lieven Malaise
Belgija
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If we agree that AI can't be fully trusted - and as far as I know it can't be because of the simple fact that all AI applications have disclaimers - it also can't be fully trusted to do even these 'minor' tasks. Which means you have to check everything anyway. So why even bother?
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I naively thought I’d watched the final episode of the AI soap opera the day before yesterday, but as it turns out I was wrong…
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| Vote with your feet | 11:25 |
Thayenga wrote:
Bored to death... again.
There are trillions of other topics, but it seems like some people have only one. Sigh.
Whoever is spewing out this rancid poll vomit clearly isn't listening.
Don't vote, don't comment, leave for a week, and let's see if there's any change...
It's the same story as everywhere online - negative engagement is better than no engagement at all.
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Thayenga
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| It's highly doubtful that it will cease | 11:49 |
Charlie Bavington wrote:
...leave for a week, and let's see if there's any change...
Make it a year or perhaps a decade. Who knows how many of these one-topic-polls they're holding in reserve?
Charlie Bavington wrote:
It's the same story as everywhere online - negative engagement is better than no engagement at all.
That depends on the topic. There is presently a lot of negative - and dangerous - engagement in my country going on. Frankly, I could really do without it, but instead prefer no engagement at all..
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Peter Motte
Belgija
Local time: 21:48
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Dutch to Flemish
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You have to give AI agents far too much permissions to be able to be sure that nothing goes wrong.
Besides, if it are "minor" tasks, which productivity gain could they give?
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Thayenga wrote:
Charlie Bavington wrote:
It's the same story as everywhere online - negative engagement is better than no engagement at all.
That depends on the topic. There is presently a lot of negative - and dangerous - engagement in my country going on. Frankly, I could really do without it, but instead prefer no engagement at all..
I should have been clearer, I meant "better" for the person doing the posting, because engagement = reach and reach is what they want. I didn't mean better for us poor saps who have to read other people's drivel (here) or, worse, bilious invective (elsewhere).
Proz will be loving this, in a sense (he says, making them marginally happier with every keystroke )
[Edited at 2026-10-21 13:44 GMT]
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| As I said on a different poll, it's ProZ doing the hard sell yet again | 15:45 |
When MT and CAT tools were first starting up, ProZ was inundated with articles, live discussions, forums, polls etc. to get everyone believing that they were the only way forward in translation and not using them would exclude a translator from the profession.
Non-stop, all day every day, just like now with AI.
Imo, MT and CAT tools were the beginning of the end of translation as a human profession. AI is The End.
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| The only truly 'redundant' thing around here ... | 16:30 |
... is AI.
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As if on purpose, this week’s 'The Economist' features an article on the subject, which, amongst other things, states the following:
«… that are concerns that personal agents could wreak havoc out of sheer stupidity. Meta has admitted that Muse will make mistakes, and has put a number of guardrails in place to minimise the potential damage when it does. Even so, some users may baulk at handing over their credit-card details until they are confident their agent will handle them ... See more As if on purpose, this week’s 'The Economist' features an article on the subject, which, amongst other things, states the following:
«… that are concerns that personal agents could wreak havoc out of sheer stupidity. Meta has admitted that Muse will make mistakes, and has put a number of guardrails in place to minimise the potential damage when it does. Even so, some users may baulk at handing over their credit-card details until they are confident their agent will handle them wisely.»
[Edited at 2026-10-21 18:15 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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neilmac
Španija
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I use it to clarify undefined abbreviations in source texts and it's quite handy.
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