I’m in a TV showroom looking at screens when my eye and ear are struck by an image of a reporter covering in English the EU meeting on tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
The English is subtitled in Dutch and beautifully synchronously read by a robot voice, so also in Dutch.
Clever technique, but life-threatening… I read: “De-escalation is now essential to keep control.”
The robot makes this: “The escalation is now essential to keep control.”
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A version of this article also appeared in NRC on the morning of February 4, 2022