Worked as a translator just over a decade ago and I can confirm that there was a point when the freelance market started flooding with lower-paying MTPE (machine translation post-editing) jobs which started to displace standard translation gigs. The advent of LLMs certainly meant that one could now forget translation as a career option.
Wasn’t translator supposed to be a normal stable job? Allegedly they were hit hard by google translate even pre-llm
Worked as a translator just over a decade ago and I can confirm that there was a point when the freelance market started flooding with lower-paying MTPE (machine translation post-editing) jobs which started to displace standard translation gigs. The advent of LLMs certainly meant that one could now forget translation as a career option.