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Today I learned Google Translate is fueled with the sweat of unpaid volunteers.
The story of a hometown hero who brought Kurdish to Google Translate has a darker narrative lurking beneath: Google apparently doesn’t pay its hardest-working translators.
Not even the poverty wages it pays those who “rate” search results. Not even when translators add an entire language to Alphabet’s private vault! Volunteers are seen as “a proxy for what a paid rater can do,” a former Google Translate engineer admits.
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