[dkural]

I don't doubt translators face massive job losses. I hate this "personal interest" style anecdotal news stories though, because it gives me no actual sense/data on how fast/slow this transition is, how widespread etc. It's basically junk food.

[metalman]

for your sins, more anecdote, :) Guy down the road has used bieng a translator to subsidise his family farm, german to english, and has watched the trade change dramaticly, the bulk(less well paid) now bieng looking over automated translations, some few highly technical things still demand an exactness that cant be trusted to a machine, and some few companys are not concerned with saving every last penny, and prefer , private arangements with humans.Most of the work came through "brokers" but those companies are folding and bieng consodated.The bread and butter is gone, and he is doing other things to make ends meet.It was very good money that could be made from a rural farm house, no so much now, and only because he is very good and has contacts.

Also one of my Aunties did live court translations in Washington, DC, and those will likely still require living humans for the forseable future