Translators as Invisible Teachers of AI: Copyright, Translation Memory, and the Political Economy of Linguistic Data

ArXi:2605.24842v1 Announce Type: new This paper examines how the labour of translators has been transformed into foundational data capital for the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Translation memories (TM) and parallel corpora preserve a one-to-one correspondence between source and target text and. therefore. constitute extraordinarily valuable supervised