No Loc No Life
@nolocnolife.bsky.social
JP - EN manga/anime/games translator
Anti-AI/MT
日英漫画・アニメ・ゲーム翻訳者
AI・機動翻訳に反対
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Anti-AI/MT
日英漫画・アニメ・ゲーム翻訳者
AI・機動翻訳に反対
(Profile pic by Yencatx)
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Good news!!!
I previously wrote an article about Japanese apps that don't use AI and listed Satori Reader as one that is dabbling in AI images.
Thanks to feedback from users they decided to change their approach and not use AI at all. Making them 100% AI FREE!!!
jtalkonline.com/japanese-stu...
I previously wrote an article about Japanese apps that don't use AI and listed Satori Reader as one that is dabbling in AI images.
Thanks to feedback from users they decided to change their approach and not use AI at all. Making them 100% AI FREE!!!
jtalkonline.com/japanese-stu...
Japanese Study Apps That DON'T Use AI - Japanese Talk
The plagiarism machine seems to be worming its way into everything. Here's a list of Japanese Study apps That DON'T Use AI!
jtalkonline.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Good news!!!
I previously wrote an article about Japanese apps that don't use AI and listed Satori Reader as one that is dabbling in AI images.
Thanks to feedback from users they decided to change their approach and not use AI at all. Making them 100% AI FREE!!!
jtalkonline.com/japanese-stu...
I previously wrote an article about Japanese apps that don't use AI and listed Satori Reader as one that is dabbling in AI images.
Thanks to feedback from users they decided to change their approach and not use AI at all. Making them 100% AI FREE!!!
jtalkonline.com/japanese-stu...
Confession time...
August 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Confession time...
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Apropos of absolutely nothing, but if a book's translation quality left a positive impression on you, PLEASE post about it! Those involved in its creation (publishers, translators, editors) see it, and we appreciate being told when something was done well or it landed the right way with readers ☺️
August 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Apropos of absolutely nothing, but if a book's translation quality left a positive impression on you, PLEASE post about it! Those involved in its creation (publishers, translators, editors) see it, and we appreciate being told when something was done well or it landed the right way with readers ☺️
Japanese is considered one of THE HARDEST languages to learn. You then have to learn HOW to translate on top (no, people who know two languages can't just translate without practice/learning how), and for media you need to know so much additional info and have a wide range of knowledge.
Not to get all "Workers of the world, unite!" early on a Monday morning, but I'm deeply concerned with how much power manga publishers hold over contract workers.
🧵a thread that I will hopefully not regret posting
🧵a thread that I will hopefully not regret posting
August 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Japanese is considered one of THE HARDEST languages to learn. You then have to learn HOW to translate on top (no, people who know two languages can't just translate without practice/learning how), and for media you need to know so much additional info and have a wide range of knowledge.
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Not to get all "Workers of the world, unite!" early on a Monday morning, but I'm deeply concerned with how much power manga publishers hold over contract workers.
🧵a thread that I will hopefully not regret posting
🧵a thread that I will hopefully not regret posting
August 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Not to get all "Workers of the world, unite!" early on a Monday morning, but I'm deeply concerned with how much power manga publishers hold over contract workers.
🧵a thread that I will hopefully not regret posting
🧵a thread that I will hopefully not regret posting
One company to steer clear of as a freelance translator or company looking for TV/movie localization!
Zoo Digital Group PLC is still not paying their freelancers.
August 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
One company to steer clear of as a freelance translator or company looking for TV/movie localization!
THIS! I made this account because a coworker was harassing me and reporting me to my managers for being anti-AI. They suggested I make an anonymous account so I did. I can't outright call out shitty companies and bad practices myself.
can't say too much about it but i know for SURE because i have been told so that i have lost work and opportunities for being hard line anti-AI. this is not a fight we as translators can fight from the inside! we NEED customers to raise the stink about this shit because we literally cannot. PLEASE.
Unfortunately, it's not easy for pros working in manga (translators, letterers, editors) to speak up to the companies that employ them.
Why? Because speaking up will cost them their job.
Hell, I know freelancers who have lost work because they posted anti-AI sentiment on social media. (1/? ⬇️)
Why? Because speaking up will cost them their job.
Hell, I know freelancers who have lost work because they posted anti-AI sentiment on social media. (1/? ⬇️)
August 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THIS! I made this account because a coworker was harassing me and reporting me to my managers for being anti-AI. They suggested I make an anonymous account so I did. I can't outright call out shitty companies and bad practices myself.
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VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did.
Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form.
We don't want your AI translations!
Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form.
We don't want your AI translations!
Dear manga publishers, we don’t want your AI translations
VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.
www.comicsbeat.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did.
Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form.
We don't want your AI translations!
Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form.
We don't want your AI translations!
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Wheel World by @messhof.bsky.social / @annapurna.com, localized in 11 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the localization agency, EDS Wordland Ltd., is credited.
August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wheel World by @messhof.bsky.social / @annapurna.com, localized in 11 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the localization agency, EDS Wordland Ltd., is credited.
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So I looked at the OFFICIAL first english chapter of Gundam Wing PREVERNTER-7
Lol
Lmao
Lol
Lmao
July 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
So I looked at the OFFICIAL first english chapter of Gundam Wing PREVERNTER-7
Lol
Lmao
Lol
Lmao
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I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.
July 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.
Don't forget, you can automatically block AI art and label accounts that use AI profile pictures and banners with this labeler!
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bsky.app
July 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Don't forget, you can automatically block AI art and label accounts that use AI profile pictures and banners with this labeler!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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it is bonkers-wild that after a decade of Vagina Bones controversies and gamergate bad faith accusations, a journalist went out and exposed actual video game censorship in the genuine and harmful sense and The Article Got Pulled By The Publisher.
VICE's owner Savage Ventures has requested the removal of my Collective Shout articles. This is due to concerns about the controversial subject matter—not journalistic complaints
Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you
Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you
July 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
it is bonkers-wild that after a decade of Vagina Bones controversies and gamergate bad faith accusations, a journalist went out and exposed actual video game censorship in the genuine and harmful sense and The Article Got Pulled By The Publisher.
Booths that push gen AI feels like a big f-you to the programmers, artists, localizers etc. who attend/show off their cool personally-made projects.
@bitsummit.bsky.social please consider not allowing games, or at least vendors, who use/push AI slop on guests in the future. It feels so ick.
@bitsummit.bsky.social please consider not allowing games, or at least vendors, who use/push AI slop on guests in the future. It feels so ick.
At BitSummit I tried a game that turned out to have AI art including an app where you could make slop avatar. I instantly lost all interest. Honestly felt sick to touch it. I made my excuses and stopped playing.
I don’t care if “AI will soon be the norm”, I don’t care if “we all have to adapt or die”, you won’t convince me to use it in any of my creative roles.
Seeing writers use AI generated book and podcast covers, Artists using Chat GPT, creatives using AI voices. That’s an immediate blacklist from me
Seeing writers use AI generated book and podcast covers, Artists using Chat GPT, creatives using AI voices. That’s an immediate blacklist from me
July 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Booths that push gen AI feels like a big f-you to the programmers, artists, localizers etc. who attend/show off their cool personally-made projects.
@bitsummit.bsky.social please consider not allowing games, or at least vendors, who use/push AI slop on guests in the future. It feels so ick.
@bitsummit.bsky.social please consider not allowing games, or at least vendors, who use/push AI slop on guests in the future. It feels so ick.
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It's wild hearing these profit-oriented execs try to frame the use of MTPE as "good for everyone, actually", when really, it's only good for their pockets.
Filmmakers, writers, artists, translators, dubbing experts, all agree: translation needs a human touch.
Filmmakers, writers, artists, translators, dubbing experts, all agree: translation needs a human touch.
July 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's wild hearing these profit-oriented execs try to frame the use of MTPE as "good for everyone, actually", when really, it's only good for their pockets.
Filmmakers, writers, artists, translators, dubbing experts, all agree: translation needs a human touch.
Filmmakers, writers, artists, translators, dubbing experts, all agree: translation needs a human touch.
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Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
July 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
It's been a very AI discussion heavy week and I'm so sick and tired of it. Wish the bubble would burst already and it vanish into obscurity.
July 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
It's been a very AI discussion heavy week and I'm so sick and tired of it. Wish the bubble would burst already and it vanish into obscurity.
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I think "Crunchyroll started as a pirate streaming website" is information that is becoming less and less of common knowledge as the fandom swells.
I think its worth making a point of it whenever possible.
I think its worth making a point of it whenever possible.
Sorta kinda agree with chunks of this piece.
But am definitely chuckling at "scrappy startup" being used for "illegally streamed content for years before going legit"
I know, I know. but if we're supposed to have an honest conversation, it should be had about its origins as well.
But am definitely chuckling at "scrappy startup" being used for "illegally streamed content for years before going legit"
I know, I know. but if we're supposed to have an honest conversation, it should be had about its origins as well.
Crunchyroll's Annecy Moment: A Missed Opportunity for Industry Transformation
Watching the 40-minute presentation unfold, one can't help but feel that Crunchyroll fundamentally misunderstood the assignment.
www.animenewsnetwork.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I think "Crunchyroll started as a pirate streaming website" is information that is becoming less and less of common knowledge as the fandom swells.
I think its worth making a point of it whenever possible.
I think its worth making a point of it whenever possible.
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'They tried to choke us from the start:' Secret 6 Madrid workers slam owner Testronic ahead of impending closure
'They tried to choke us from the start:' Secret 6 Madrid workers slam owner Testronic ahead of impending closure
'At some point we realized that we were trying to save something that someone else had decided should be left to die.'
www.gamedeveloper.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
'They tried to choke us from the start:' Secret 6 Madrid workers slam owner Testronic ahead of impending closure
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Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be any more reasons to quit Spotify, the brutal news keeps coming
Why We Quit Spotify
Enough is enough
www.hearingthings.co
July 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be any more reasons to quit Spotify, the brutal news keeps coming
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Lot of AI in manga and anime these days, so I went and spoke to several JPN to ENG translators, most of whom have been working in the industry for decades.
They did not paint GenAI in a good light as you can see in this week's Popverse Jump .
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
They did not paint GenAI in a good light as you can see in this week's Popverse Jump .
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
How AI translations of manga continues the 'enshitification' of the medium, and why Japanase publishers are "less precious" about it [Popverse Jump]
Translating a manga from Japanese to English isn't a straightforward process, which is why AI will always be terrible at it.
www.thepopverse.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Lot of AI in manga and anime these days, so I went and spoke to several JPN to ENG translators, most of whom have been working in the industry for decades.
They did not paint GenAI in a good light as you can see in this week's Popverse Jump .
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
They did not paint GenAI in a good light as you can see in this week's Popverse Jump .
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
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Boycott all publishers using GenAi.
July 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Boycott all publishers using GenAi.
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The founders of independent publisher Bloodhound Books have launched a new AI fiction translation service, Globescribe.ai 👇 #BookSky
Bloodhound Books founders launch AI fiction translation company
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July 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The founders of independent publisher Bloodhound Books have launched a new AI fiction translation service, Globescribe.ai 👇 #BookSky
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One thing that I notice is that books and games that use AI text keep getting caught out because they cut and pasted the text and didn't remove the prompts or replies. Which suggests that using AI goes hand in hand with a general "fuck it, that'll do" lack of attention to detail throughout.
July 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
One thing that I notice is that books and games that use AI text keep getting caught out because they cut and pasted the text and didn't remove the prompts or replies. Which suggests that using AI goes hand in hand with a general "fuck it, that'll do" lack of attention to detail throughout.