A (in)visibilidade do tradutor humano em tempos de IA
um experimento autoaplicado em tradução literária
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2026.61047Mots-clés :
tradução literária e IA, visibilidade do tradutor, criação de prompt, pós-ediçãoRésumé
Partindo de um experimento autoaplicado que compara cinco diferentes traduções inglês-português brasileiro de um microconto, discutimos a (in)visibilidade do trabalho do tradutor literário humano em tempos de IA. Mais especificamente, tivemos por objetivo investigar as interferências, se alguma, de significados produzidas pelas máquinas e o impacto destas no processo e produto tradutório (sobretudo em termos de multiplicidade de significados literários, adequação, fluência e esforço de pós-edição). O mesmo texto-fonte foi traduzido por dois humanos, dois serviços online de tradução automática e dois chatbots de IA gerativa. Os outputs foram analisados quanto às semelhanças e diferenças relativas a determinados traços linguísticos e às marcas autorais. A despeito de variações nas métricas padrão BLEU e TER, ambos os chatbots forneceram um resultado próximo ao do humano, exceto por intervenções cruciais que podem prejudicar o entendimento e a fruição do texto, bem como invisibilizar o papel do tradutor literário como administrador dos prompts e pós-editor. Os pontos problemáticos incluem a administração dos pronomes possessivos dêiticos por ambos os serviços de tradução automática, a adição de um travessão indesejável e a fabricação de um título por um dos chatbots. Nossos resultados sugerem uma nova possível invisibilização do tradutor, cujo grau de participação na tarefa é colocado em dúvida.
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