Human translators are toast (to use a metaphor that LLMs today can easily handle). But what happens to second language learning in general? How would you explain to a 20-year-old why they should bother with all that pesky memorization when good (and quickly improving) apps can handle most situations that would take years to master the old fashioned way.
You might be interested in this detailed counter-argument and how the most demanding clients insist on humans in the loop. https://geekway.substack.com/p/the-robots-wont-cause-massive-unemployment?r=qpge&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
Human translators are toast (to use a metaphor that LLMs today can easily handle). But what happens to second language learning in general? How would you explain to a 20-year-old why they should bother with all that pesky memorization when good (and quickly improving) apps can handle most situations that would take years to master the old fashioned way.