Adam Podoxin

🎓CS + LING @ SFU
📝NLP & Computational Linguistics research
💻 Full-stack and cloud dev

[Adam Podoxin @adampodoxin]

Everyone in this project was amazing, even our readers!

[Marzena Karpinska @mar_kar_]

A lot of people focus on AI-written fiction, but what about AI literary translation? 📚

We find that AI translation can be readable & sometimes even preferred...
‼️BUT it also flattens characters' voices 🧙and is less immersive 🫣 than published human translations.

Below is my favorite quote from one of our readers 📖🧑 Check out the paper📜and website🌐for more!

It's @YvesFrtl's first PhD paper and the very first paper for @adampodoxin and @TyBrassington great work!

[Adam Podoxin @adampodoxin]

Great work and so much learning during this entire process! I found it very interesting that readers overwhelmingly preferred the translation they thought was human, despite not being able to reliably tell which one was actually human or AI. Very important to keep readers' trust.

[Yves Ferstler @YvesFrtl]

📚 AI-written stories get attention. AI-translated literature is reaching readers more quietly, shaping how they experience an author’s work.

So what is lost in AI literary translation ⁉️🤔

🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’.
✍️ But human translation is valued more, especially on a closer look, for clarity and immersion.

‼️ Both vary in quality BUT AI varies more, even within a single book.

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[Yves Ferstler @YvesFrtl]

📚 AI-written stories get attention. AI-translated literature is reaching readers more quietly, shaping how they experience an author’s work.

So what is lost in AI literary translation ⁉️🤔

🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’.
✍️ But human translation is valued more, especially on a closer look, for clarity and immersion.

‼️ Both vary in quality BUT AI varies more, even within a single book.

(1/11)