Before AI translation became available, I would hire professional translators. Their rate was about $50-100 for a detailed product page into one language, and it would take them a few days to deliver.
Now with AI translation, I pay about $120 per year for unlimited translation. Meaning dozens of product pages into 5 languages, plus e-mail back and forth with hundreds of customers. All instantly at my convenience.
What this means is that a whole lot of people, sectors and businesses who would never hire professional translator can now have high quality translation at their disposal for a cheap price.
> Another is assuming that because something is valuable you can charge a lot for it.
Even if LLM translation won't deliver trillions of dollars in income to the AI companies, it will without a doubt deliver trillions of dollars in value to customers and users within the coming few years.
Good human translators are still higher in quality than any AI and will always be. But AI translation is currently far beyond good enough for all use cases, except fine literature and maybe complicated juridical stuff. But I'm not familiar with those sectors.
Before AI translation became available, I would hire professional translators. Their rate was about $50-100 for a detailed product page into one language, and it would take them a few days to deliver.
Now with AI translation, I pay about $120 per year for unlimited translation. Meaning dozens of product pages into 5 languages, plus e-mail back and forth with hundreds of customers. All instantly at my convenience.
What this means is that a whole lot of people, sectors and businesses who would never hire professional translator can now have high quality translation at their disposal for a cheap price.
> Another is assuming that because something is valuable you can charge a lot for it.
Even if LLM translation won't deliver trillions of dollars in income to the AI companies, it will without a doubt deliver trillions of dollars in value to customers and users within the coming few years.
Good human translators are still higher in quality than any AI and will always be. But AI translation is currently far beyond good enough for all use cases, except fine literature and maybe complicated juridical stuff. But I'm not familiar with those sectors.