Literary translators flip the script at Frankfurt Book Fair, imitating AI translation style
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-12
At the Frankfurt Book Fair's "KI-Übersetzungsbattle," literary translators Andreas Jandl, Myriam Alfano, and Heide Franck deliberately wrote translations dangerously close to what AI produces, exploring how to spot the AI sound, how models actually "translate," and who to blame when they fail. Franck co-leads Kollektive Intelligenz, testing AI's fitness for literary translation. Author suggests a writing exercise: rewrite your paragraph with a model, then write a third version imitating it—learning the AI sound helps you catch it in your own drafts.
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