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Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service? | Not Applicable

Daryo — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Not Applicable

I don't have even the slightest wish to learn what kind of verbal acrobatics could have created the term 'Linguistic Prompting', nor to try to figure out what 'AI Optimization' could possibly have to do with translating?

I will very happily stay 'ignorant' of what these 'exciting opportunities' have to offer to me – plenty of more interesting ways to use my time than to be a remote peripheral attached to some wannabe intelligence.

Especially when arranged through sub-sub-subcontractors with a habit of 'optional payment': I recently heard of yet another case of someone doing some AI related work (not related to languages) and the company simply 'deciding to not pay'.

What is not to like with 'AI work'? You get the insult and the injury ...

Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service? | No, and I don't plan to

Christine Andersen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:09:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?
Poster: Christine Andersen
Post title: No, and I don't plan to

I do not see that it would be useful for the work I do.
I agree with comments from the CIoL survey on members' use of AI in 2025 and 2026:
[url removed]

"I am against the use of AI in general and believe it to be ethically and environmentally dubious. I explicitly tell my clients that I do not use AI."

"Plenty of reasons NOT to use it: it's more work to fix the results than to translate from scratch; AI is built on stolen and copyrighted work; AI uses far too much water and electricity; AI companies use low-paid workers to edit the input; using AI decreases your creativity and skills."

"I don't see any advantage for me in my work anyway, but I'm increasingly worried about the environmental impact and serious ethical issues of AI."
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But check the whole survey for a fuller perspective!

[Edited at 2026-06-18 13:53 GMT]

Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service? | No!

WolfgangS — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:48:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?
Poster: WolfgangS
Post title: No!

No

Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service? | No

Alex Lichanow — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:57:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?
Poster: Alex Lichanow
Post title: No

Why on Earth would I (or anyone)?
What I would seriously consider offering is AI sabotage services.

Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service? | Interesting

Lingua 5B — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:27:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?
Poster: Lingua 5B
Post title: Interesting

I am amazed at how they keep coming with new fancy words for the “dull AI slaving at miserable prices”. Better yet “AI prompt engineer”, since when is asking questions called engineering?

Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service? | No

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:58:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: No

Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?

ProZ.com Staff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:10:05 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you started offering AI optimization/Linguistic Prompting/etc as a paid service?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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