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Poll: Clients often think fluent AI drafts mean less human work. How do you address rate pressure?
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Hipyan Nopri
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Charge for Responsibility, Not Keystrokes Oct 11

I voted “Other.”

I position myself as the professional who manages the client’s risk, and I bill AI-assisted review by the hour.

In legal translation, fluent machine output is often more dangerous than clumsy output, because its errors are hidden.

Per-word discounts and tracked changes both suggest I am paid per correction, while flat fees ignore that review time grows with the length of the text and the quality of the draft.

An hourl... See more
I voted “Other.”

I position myself as the professional who manages the client’s risk, and I bill AI-assisted review by the hour.

In legal translation, fluent machine output is often more dangerous than clumsy output, because its errors are hidden.

Per-word discounts and tracked changes both suggest I am paid per correction, while flat fees ignore that review time grows with the length of the text and the quality of the draft.

An hourly rate, estimated in advance from a sample, reflects what clients actually pay for: my full responsibility for a document they can safely rely on. ▲ Collapse


Michael Newton
 
writeaway
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The hard sell continues? Oct 11

Surely there must be other far more interesting poll topics than AI? This reminds me of the days back when CAT tools and MT dominated all the Proz polls, non-stop.

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Jennifer Levey
Andy Davis
Philip Lees
Alex Lichanow
Chris Spurgin
svetlana cosqueric
 
Lieven Malaise
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AI/MT 06:03

AI or MT drafts obviously mean less human work. Otherwise it would be impossible for me to offer a lower MTPE rate while remaining profitable.
 
Peter Motte
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Rates went too low 09:25

CAT, MT and AI made it possible to do more in a shorter time, but at a certain moment it stops.
What remains to be done, becomes more and more difficult. The previous "lower word rates" idea because of repetitions and fuzzy matches, doesn't hold up anymore.
That doesn't necessarily mean we should paid by the hour instead of per word, but it does mean going on lower rates because there are less words to be done, is not the way to move forward.
As a matter of fact, we went on wit... See more
CAT, MT and AI made it possible to do more in a shorter time, but at a certain moment it stops.
What remains to be done, becomes more and more difficult. The previous "lower word rates" idea because of repetitions and fuzzy matches, doesn't hold up anymore.
That doesn't necessarily mean we should paid by the hour instead of per word, but it does mean going on lower rates because there are less words to be done, is not the way to move forward.
As a matter of fact, we went on with that idea for too long already, but now it's completely over.
One of my clients (actually, he isn't a client because I've never accepted one of his jobs), sends jobs based on word price of sometimes less than 1 euro. The biggest job ever was approoximately 8 euro's. There is no way anyone can do that, with or without AI. I wonder which people take on those jobs. ▲ Collapse
 


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