#hell; there's this one series I'm reading rn that is only translated by AI used by a person who then cleans it up | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

neganium · 1 year

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People talking about Atom: The Beginning makin me miss when that one scanlation group stopped translating it into English bc it got picked up by an official publisher...

And then said publisher admitted to using AI translation, and it Showed, iirc...

#never actually tried to read it bc like. I have no money honey #but I remember someone somewhere talking about it?? maybe even in the old scanlation group's discord #dunno for sure tho so take that with a grain of salt #thing is; I've heard this claim about a few publishers that I hadn't really heard of before then #which leads me to wonder if it isn't bc they're smaller/less prominent publishers who can't afford- or don't want to pay for-#actual human translators and localization #(which you can only do so much localization on something that's canonically set in japan; anyways; imho)#(or rather to say; some things should be left more or less alone; add a footnote or endpage if you need to)#hell; there's this one series I'm reading rn that is only translated by AI used by a person who then cleans it up #and posts it onto mangadex; they can't do sound-effects or those little bits of hand-written one-off dialogue #or anything that's against a busy backdrop #and it's annoying; but it's the only way the story can be read; and it's a very interesting concept to me #admittedly it has Vibes to itd wrt treatment of female characters; but it's not the worst I've seen #there IS one who is a major backstabbing bitch for seemingly no reason; but she's part of a group of characters that are just Like That

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