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Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi

AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi

As it happens, I recently translated a short story by Kir Bulychev — a Soviet science-fiction icon virtually unknown in the West. And for those who would love to create quality translations but face huge opportunity costs and zero financial incentives, AI could lead to new possibilities. Historians and translators may be the first to go not because their work is easy to automate, but because the interpretive element of their labor has always been invisible or, when made visible, dismissed as odious human bias.

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