Comments on: Japanese translators openly protest government’s AI manga translation initiative  https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-translators-openly-protest-government-ai-manga-translation-initiative/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:57:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: D https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-translators-openly-protest-government-ai-manga-translation-initiative/#comment-3102 Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:57:40 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=31969#comment-3102 As a customer, I’m in favor of AI translation of manga. I just don’t trust localizers anymore, and I’d rather Japanese companies have the tools to translate their own media instead of letting parasitic entities extract money for work that abuses the source material.

]]> By: John C https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-translators-openly-protest-government-ai-manga-translation-initiative/#comment-3091 Wed, 05 Jun 2024 08:10:36 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=31969#comment-3091 Just as Mamaki stated above. I could tell this was not anyone of Japanese Origin and is a foreign group who only cares to defend subpar translations that have Political Insertions and Memespeak than to create authentic translations. If they cared in the first place they would have done a better job long ago and not gaslight the customer including creators that they need bad translations in order to keep going and to ask for censorship in products to then undervalue sells overseas.

There is no reason why AI should not exist and have an In-House Bilingual Editor of Japanese Origin to look over it. Other than to keep the quality low and the wages artificially high. AI can learn and evolve to do better, a translator who is in love with the status quo and money will not. Which has been the case for a long time.

]]> By: mamaki https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-translators-openly-protest-government-ai-manga-translation-initiative/#comment-3087 Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:29:15 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=31969#comment-3087 “Japan Association of Translators” (https://jat.org/translators), just as I expected, with a name like that most names aren’t even of Japanese origin. I wonder how many of them are guilty of replacing the original text with fanfics in the name of “localization” and now only when their jobs are at risk they claim to care about providing faithful translations.

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