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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 22:01
Member (2007)
Ingiriisi to Portuguese
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No Jun 14, 2025

I did not participate and will continue not to participate as long as the contest rules remain unchanged, namely the rule that allows participants to vote on other participants' translations. We are all so impartial, aren't we?

Elizabeth Joy Pitt de Morales
Philip Lees
 
Oscar Núñez Alfaro
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Costa Rica
Local time: 15:01
Member (Oct 2026)
Ingiriisi to Spanish
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No. Jun 14, 2025

I think that the contest is about sport translation, so it is really hard doing it. I would prefer literary or Christian translations.
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 23:01
Ingiriisi to German
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Noooo Jun 14, 2025

Intransparent and unfair rules make it a waste of effort for about 95% of participants.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Elizabeth Joy Pitt de Morales
writeaway
Philip Lees
 
Maria Laura Curzi
Maria Laura Curzi  Identity Verified
Argentina
Local time: 18:01
Ingiriisi to Spanish
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Yes Jun 14, 2025

As I love sports and I do sports and motorsports translations, I couldn't miss this edition.
 
Cecília Alves
Cecília Alves  Identity Verified
Argentina
Local time: 18:01
Member (2011)
Ingiriisi to Portuguese
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Yes Jun 14, 2025

Though I'm a longtime member of ProZ, I had never participated in a contest. This was my first shot... (play on words)
But it's a pity there's no text on volleyball, which is my preferred team sport.

[Edited at 2025-06-15 01:52 GMT]

Maria Laura Curzi
 
writeaway
writeaway  Identity Verified
Faransiis to Ingiriisi
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Just wondering... Jun 14, 2025

Will translations be checked to see if AI was used or will the use of AI be allowed?

Maria Laura Curzi
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Daryo
Daryo
Local time: 22:01
Serbiyaan to Ingiriisi
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If the way MT was treated is any indicator ... Jun 17, 2025

writeaway wrote:

Will translations be checked to see if AI was used or will the use of AI be allowed?


If the way MT was treated is any indicator ... the answer is easy to guess:

I lost all interest in translation contests few years ago, when I spotted an entry - a "translation into Serbian" - that was blatantly done by someone who doesn't know the first thing about the Serbian language but used some MT instead, and nothing was done to remove it.

https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=Could%20do%20all,to%20remove%20it.

and

If it was in the Proz contest, there is actually one fictional profile (GoTrans) that Proz uses to make MT entries (this was explained during the last Translation Day event).
It's a sort of gimmick which is there since quite some time to track I suppose the progress of machine translation.
https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=Could%20do%20all,to%20remove%20it.

and

creating fictional profiles that other contest participants have no ways of knowing are fictional ought to be against some rule - especially given that it was NEVER announced in any translation contest rule that MT posing as a fictional profile will be a participant. It didn't "let me down", I simply decided I have better use of my time than to be a free tester for MT:.
https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=creating%20fictional%20profiles,tester%20for%20MT.

BTW contest rule #1 says:

ProZ.com translation contests » Rules
1. Entries must be original works. ...

https://www.proz.com/translation-contests/rules#:~:text=ProZ.com translation,be%20original%20works.

If simply copy-pasting raw MT output was allowed in the past to pass off as 'original work', why would AI be any different?

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Zea_Mays
Maria Laura Curzi
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
 


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