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The Translators’ Section of the Swedish Writers’ Union commissioned an anonymous artist to create the illustration to this post. The Union is of the firm belief that literary works written by human writers require and deserve human translators.
On Dec 4 CEATL together with 12 other authors’, performers’ organisations, representing hundreds of thousands of EU’s cultural and creative industries signed a joint statement to the European Commission on the Impact of AI […]
The Paris AI Summit intends to promote reliable, sustainable and responsible AI. For the first time at this level, intellectual property is being discussed.
This is an essential global issue that cannot be ignored. That is why 38 international organisations representing all the creative and cultural sectors are today issuing a call to build a future that reconciles the development of AI with respect for copyright and related rights.
We are horrified to read in The Bookseller about Veen Bosch & Keuning’s “limited experiment with some Dutch authors, for their books to be translated into English language using AI”. Veen Bosch & Keuning claim that they are “not creating books with AI, it all starts and ends with human action” – yet this is patently not the case.
As a new EU policy cycle is about to start, CEATL, together with 12 European and International organisations representing the voice of writers, translators, performers, composers, songwriters, screen directors, screenwriters, visual artists, journalists, and other creative workers, co-signed a joint letter to the newly-elected European Parliament.
Tags: AI, Austria, Europe, Europe; European Union;, Germany, Open letter, Switzerland The three German-language translators’ organisations IGÜ (Austria), A*dS (Switzerland) […]
15 representative organisations of authors and performers sent a joint letter to EU Executive Vice-President Virkkunen and Commissionner Micallef about the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.
Tags: AI, Survey, Working conditions There is a lot going on in the AI field and most CEATL member associations […]
In this 10th issue of Counterpoint, we take up a topic which is both frightening and fantastic for those of us in the field of literary translation. AI, artificial intelligence, has been at the forefront of countless debates, news reels, articles and talks over recent months, and the questions on what this new technology means …
Tags: AGM, AGM2023, AI, Generative AI, Ljubljana, SloveniaAt the CEATL Annual General Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in May, delegates listened […]
In October 2023, CEATL conducted a survey about the impact of AI on literary translators’ work and income. Approximately 1,500 literary translators from 34 CEATL member associations answered the questionnaire.
Since the beginning of 2023, the spectacular evolution of artificial intelligence, and in particular the explosion in the use of generative AI in all areas of creation, has raised fundamental questions and sparked intense debate. CEATL has drafted its own statement detailing its stance on the use of generative AIs in the field of literary translation.