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Translators are losing jobs to AI that produces “consistently mediocre results”

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 25, 2026
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Translators have always been among the professions most threatened by automation, but the last two years have been brutal. CNN profiles translation professionals who are watching their livelihoods evaporate as companies rush to replace them with AI — despite the fact that large language models still produce, in …

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