French translators working for Harlequin (HarperCollins France) have recently been informed the publisher will now be using AI for translations. Human translators will still be involved but only to edit the machine output in French. An agency known as Fluent Planet is handling the initial pass through machine translation software. Learn more.
Related: I reported on AI translation recently when profiling GlobeScribe. Read.
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