The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI

Literary translation reveals the current limitations of AI. For centuries, humanity pursued the dream of undoing Babel, with sci-fi novelists imagining universal translators and linguists creating international languages to ensure global mutual understanding regardless of origin. Meanwhile, the veneer of authoritarian art is examined, where its propaganda is described as a hollow imitation of reality, failing to capture the true essence of the world it attempts to represent through its restrictive artistic lens.