Can a machine translation simply be signed off by a credentialled translator?
The credential holder is accountable for every word they certify. Signing work they have not thoroughly checked breaches their professional obligations and puts the credential itself at risk.
In-depth Answer
Machine tools genuinely help with drafting, but the professional code requires practitioners to accept only work they are competent to do and to stand behind what they sign.
Stamping raw machine output without a full review is not certification in any meaningful sense.
On Thai official documents the recurring failures are proper names and transliteration, the official names of government bodies, document and reference numbers with fixed formats, Buddhist-era years, and text inside seals that has to be read from an image.
There is also a confidentiality risk: uploading personal documents to an external service can conflict with the duty of confidence.
The defensible approach is to use tools for formatting or terminology lookup while the credential holder reviews and takes responsibility for every line before signing.
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