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Have seen the same thing happen to literary translator friends. Barring the very rare few who broke through to international fame via well-known literary award,
by kranner 16d ago
Have seen the same thing happen to literary translator friends. Barring the very rare few who broke through to international fame via well-known literary award, the rest were largely sustaining themselves with more mundane business translations and that work is ended.
- ProllyInfamous 16d agoMy father knows a guy that financed a Texas mansion, for $2MM, using the collateral from his decade of running a very large technical document translation service (US resident, using foreign workforce from his homeland), popular throughout the 2010s. Was a beautiful house, which I briefly lived in during scatterbrained renovations (never met the new owner). The bank forclosed on his house ~late2024/early2025... anybody can now just use an LLM to translate (in real time), on sub-$300 hardware (offline, open-source models run via e.g: Whisper[GUI]).