It's not AI in a direct literal sense, but it's technically a subset of it. I only bring up the hypothetical to help give the example that the definition of something being worthless to the creative process is only down to perspective.

I did write it up as a hypothetical, so fair enough that you see it as unrealistic.

I myself would rather not believe that will happen, but I mainly bring up that perspective to give a point of comparison to something that isn't impossible.

If anything I genuinely believe that people should be louder than ever to voice their dissatisfaction.

To many that may get annoying over time, but I like to think getting it out is better than spiting the people telling you otherwise in hoping they lose their job to AI.

I find that too cynical. 🧵

I can see there's an urge to have the conversation be calm. While I do agree having a level head is good for discussion, I think it's pretty dismissive to tell people they're overacting when what's conveyed is pretty dismissive of how far the AI discussion has gone, regardless of culture.

It should be mentioned that what I'm saying here isn't even unrealistic.

Plenty of doujin games have claimed to have come with English translations with the asterisk that they're done by AI.

One big example for Touhou I can think of being the Yuukarin game.
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I bring this point up since the only difference between things like backgrounds and things like translations creatively is purely from your own perspective.

Someone is going to feel offended that what they do is equated to nothing and AI doesn't not help that matter at all.

ZUN then follows this up later saying that "I decided to use AI for this since it isn't much fun learning English myself. Surely no one reads them on repeat with how people replay the game (lol)".

Genuinely think how dishartening that is for those who share translations for this series.

ZUN comes in and says that "I'm going to be including English translations with all of my games for now on".

Everyone is excited until it is eventually revealed that the whole entirity of the game was translated using AI translators.

Picture if you will; a world where legal guy Ruw manages to shut down thcrap/thpatch on the grounds that they rip assets of the game and upload them online.

What has been the crux of official game translations for 12+ years just completely gone as a result.