Fun Fact: One of the reasons Square was pushed to improve its localization practices in the 2000s is because Alexander O. Smith showed them reviews proving that people *cared* about translation quality. (Link to the full interview: web.archive.org/web/20091113...)
โHow can you suddenly dislike art when you find out itโs made by AI?โ
For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.
Because I care about people.
You dipshit.
I love Expedition 33, but this is absolutely the right thing to do. Good games shouldn't get a pass for using the plagiarism machine.
So thankful for the shout-out to the localization teams by the E33 Director at the game awards.
Localization teams bring your art to a bigger audienceโand for many studios, bring in the lionโs share of profit for your game.
Invest in quality human loc, and give them credit.
A veces hay que decir basta. Desde ATRAE, nos plantamos ante la precarizaciรณn de nuestro sector, agravada con el auge de la IA generativa. Echa un vistazo a los vรญdeos de la campaรฑa, firma nuestro manifiesto por una traducciรณn humana y, sobre todo, ยกhaz que corra la voz! www.traduccionhumana.com โ๐ฃ
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
Via @automaton-media.com, composer Uematsu: โIโve never used AI & probably never will. I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself. When you listen to music, the fun is also in discovering the background of the person who created it, right?"
More:
Whatever you do, please donโt stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Btw, Silksong's script stands at about 90.000 words total. A pro TL would need about 2 months to translate that much, and that's with an additional editor pass.
*climbs up on soapbox*
*emotionally prepares to actually share a translation and localization opinion*
...stop translating ใใ๏ผใ as "eh?"!!!!!
*leaves every comment on read*
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
Here's a thing about translation. Particularly, people who complain about "accuracy." Nearly always, what they mean is, "I put this word into a J>E dictionary and that's NOT what it said!"
But have you looked at an English dictionary? No, really, have you? Does it look like a J>E dictionary?
Also people keep asking me if I find AI translation helpful in my work and AI TRANSLATION IS NOWHERE NEAR COMMERCIAL QUALITY and NO I DON'T EDIT AI TRANSLATION BECAUSE IT'S MUCH FASTER FOR ME TO JUST DO THE ACTUAL TRANSLATION THAN EDIT CRAP because PAINTING CRAP WITH GOLD DOESN'T TURN CRAP INTO GOLD
If the games you've been working on for years have switched to MTPE or some other bullshit the higher-ups tell you, now's the time to speak up.
Not only are they killing jobs across our field, they're killing culture and in some fields it could potentially hurt people.
Escabechina de cierres y despidos en el sector del videojuego: los grandes compran a los pequeรฑos y los dejan morir
Please boycott Duolingo.
It was a bad app that only worked for people who already knew the language even before going 'AI-first'.
Repeat after us: you cannot learn a language ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฃ๐จ speak through AI generated content.
techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/t...
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
"Games aren't political" grifters in shambles.
English is way harsher on repetition than Japanese, so part of a light novel translator's job is tweaking the wording so it says the same shit, but without sounding redundant.
I thought I'd do a rundown of a few tricks that help with this.
your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people
no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but โdonโt buy Potter stuffโ is an extremely easy baseline to follow
The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.
Cada vez que leo a alguien decir que es imposible desterrar a la IA de nuestra vida cotidiana miro a mi alrededor y constato que la gente a la que tengo por personas con criterio no la usan para absolutamente NADA.
There are words with animal names in ENG: Dog-tired, crocodile tears, scaredy cat, etc., right?
They also exist in JP.
Like:
็ผ็ฝ ใใใฐใใrou-bai (wolf + mythical wolf) = panic
็ซ่ ใญใใใใneko-jita (cat + tongue) = Tongue sensitive to heat (temp)
็ฌๆญป ใใฌใใซใinu-jini (dog + death) = Meaningless death in war
Es tan sencillo como esto.
No puede ser que sigamos encontrรกndonos con traducciones del japonรฉs que dejan el โsanโ y nota del traductor al canto.
Mi consejo de hoy es que en vez de morir en colinas (calco del inglรฉs) no os bajรฉis de la burra (frase hecha chulรญsima espaรฑola)
The Osaka High Court ruled on march 25th that Japans ban on same-sex marriage is in violation of Japans constitution. Thus it is the 5th high court and 10th ruling so far to come to this conclusion.
mainichi.jp/articles/202...
