调查：生成式人工智能已导致超三分之一译者失业
China Daily
生成式人工智能导致超三分之一译者失业，这一次不是预言，而是现实。
生成式人工智能导致超三分之一译者失业，这一次不是预言，而是现实。英国作家协会的调查还发现，超40%的译者因生成式人工智能的出现而收入减少，不过复杂的文学作品领域目前还未被人工智能攻占。
More than a third of translators have lost work due to generative AI, a survey by the Society of Authors (SoA) has found. More than four in 10 translators said that their income has decreased because of generative AI, while more than three-quarters believe the emerging technology will negatively affect their future income.
英国作家协会的一项调查发现，生成式人工智能已经导致超三分之一译者丢掉饭碗。超40%的译者表示，他们的收入因生成式人工智能的出现而减少了，与此同时超四分之三的译者认为这项新兴技术会对他们未来的收入产生负面影响。
The SoA, the UK’s largest trade union for writers, illustrators and translators, ran the survey in January. It found that 37% of translators had used generative AI to support their work, and 8% used it because they were asked by their publisher or commissioning organisation.
英国作家协会是英国最大的作家、插画师和译者的工会组织。该协会在1月份开展的调查发现，37%的译者用生成式人工智能来辅助自己的工作，8%的译者使用这一技术是应出版商或委托机构的要求。
Thomas Bunstead, whose translations from Spanish include The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo, said it is important to draw a distinction between literary translators and “commercial” translators. “Though a third of translators have responded to the SoA survey saying they think they’ve lost work to AI already, literary translation remains in the hands of humans,” he said. “The work that has presumably been handed over to AI will be the kind of uncomplicated bread-and-butter stuff which doesn’t require so much nuance,” such as instruction manuals.
托马斯·邦斯特德将西班牙语作品翻译成英文，翻译作品包括奥古斯丁·费尔南德斯·马洛的《众爱之书》。他表示，有必要将文学译者和“商业”译者区分开来。他说：“尽管接受英国作家协会调查的译者有三分之一认为人工智能抢走了他们的饭碗，但文学翻译领域仍掌握在人类手中。”他指出，“被移交给人工智能处理的翻译工作是那种不复杂的实实在在的内容，没有那么多微妙之处需要翻译。”
