Harlequin France has begun to use AI translation in an effort to “increase profitability by reducing working time,” according to French translators association ATLF. In a letter to members, ATLF and the collective In the Flesh state that the publisher has contacted several translators to say that they will end their work with them after their current contract. Instead, the company Fluent Planet will translate books using AI and hire freelance editors to proof the translations afterward. According to Livres Hebdo, translators for Harlequin France’s Azur line of short romances were told in November that the books would begin machine […]
