When freelancer M took on what she thought was a manga translation job at a new company, she was unpleasantly surprised to find that the actual work turned out to be something else entirely.

¡°They told me they wanted me to just edit AI translations,¡± said M, who works with major publishers and wished to stay anonymous.?

While translators have been asked to simply ¡°edit¡± pregenerated translations ¡ª a process called machine translation post-editing (MTPE) ¡ª for years, earlier iterations were often rejected outright, she said.