Kouryuu
@kouryuu.bsky.social
J-E Translator | JP➡️EN翻訳者| Works Include: OreImo, Prisma Illya, DEARDROPS, Maggot Baits, Da Capo 3 R | Otaku, Gamer, Tabletop RPG fan | Opinions are my own.
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If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency
Abura Ramen for dinner!
August 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Abura Ramen for dinner!
I still can’t get over the hilarity of Inoue Kikuko going around and mothering people as a giant mantis-like bug monster in this show.
Just being a good mama bug and tenderly giving out lots of head pats with her vicious scythe arms lol
Just being a good mama bug and tenderly giving out lots of head pats with her vicious scythe arms lol
August 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I still can’t get over the hilarity of Inoue Kikuko going around and mothering people as a giant mantis-like bug monster in this show.
Just being a good mama bug and tenderly giving out lots of head pats with her vicious scythe arms lol
Just being a good mama bug and tenderly giving out lots of head pats with her vicious scythe arms lol
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Many translators fear and lament what will be lost as their work gets automated. Many were never in it for the money, but for love of the work—of translating games, prose and art. They worry AI-generated output stands to flatten and collapse culture itself, our very ability to understand each other.
August 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Many translators fear and lament what will be lost as their work gets automated. Many were never in it for the money, but for love of the work—of translating games, prose and art. They worry AI-generated output stands to flatten and collapse culture itself, our very ability to understand each other.
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Unlike as in the first installment in AI Killed My Job, which looked at tech workers, some of these stories are truly harrowing. Workers in their 40s, 50s, even 60s, who now have to think about how they're going to survive, while their peers are retiring. Some are despairing.
August 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Unlike as in the first installment in AI Killed My Job, which looked at tech workers, some of these stories are truly harrowing. Workers in their 40s, 50s, even 60s, who now have to think about how they're going to survive, while their peers are retiring. Some are despairing.
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Some translators I spoke to said their freelance work is down 90%. Others said it's dried up completely. Others say it's only a matter of time, and are looking into new careers. One games company that had translators on staff said they could stay—if they took a 50% pay cut.
August 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Some translators I spoke to said their freelance work is down 90%. Others said it's dried up completely. Others say it's only a matter of time, and are looking into new careers. One games company that had translators on staff said they could stay—if they took a 50% pay cut.
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Many translators paint a picture of how, despite there being no revolutionary advance in automating translation, the floor began to fall out from the industry around 2023. OpenAI, it seemed, made 'good enough' translations acceptable, and demand for quality work evaporated.
August 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Many translators paint a picture of how, despite there being no revolutionary advance in automating translation, the floor began to fall out from the industry around 2023. OpenAI, it seemed, made 'good enough' translations acceptable, and demand for quality work evaporated.
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More precisely, this is how corporate clients, managers, and executives who've been sold on the power of AI by Silicon Valley, have used AI as a way to drive down wages, demand higher volume, and deskill work.
I spoke to dozens of translators who've been impacted, and many tell similar stories.
I spoke to dozens of translators who've been impacted, and many tell similar stories.
August 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
More precisely, this is how corporate clients, managers, and executives who've been sold on the power of AI by Silicon Valley, have used AI as a way to drive down wages, demand higher volume, and deskill work.
I spoke to dozens of translators who've been impacted, and many tell similar stories.
I spoke to dozens of translators who've been impacted, and many tell similar stories.
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my mom has been a freelance translator for almost my entire life and has seen her income essentially disappear in the last two years despite, as this piece notes, no meaningful improvements in the tech. the world has just decided translation isn't something you pay for anymore, basically
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:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
my mom has been a freelance translator for almost my entire life and has seen her income essentially disappear in the last two years despite, as this piece notes, no meaningful improvements in the tech. the world has just decided translation isn't something you pay for anymore, basically
Some days I feel like my passion for... well, anything... is just fading away drop by drop.
Maybe it's the lack of sleep. Maybe it's burnout. Maybe it's not being able to share them with others as much anymore. Maybe all of that.
Or maybe it's also the GDBS I can't talk about.
Maybe it's the lack of sleep. Maybe it's burnout. Maybe it's not being able to share them with others as much anymore. Maybe all of that.
Or maybe it's also the GDBS I can't talk about.
March 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Some days I feel like my passion for... well, anything... is just fading away drop by drop.
Maybe it's the lack of sleep. Maybe it's burnout. Maybe it's not being able to share them with others as much anymore. Maybe all of that.
Or maybe it's also the GDBS I can't talk about.
Maybe it's the lack of sleep. Maybe it's burnout. Maybe it's not being able to share them with others as much anymore. Maybe all of that.
Or maybe it's also the GDBS I can't talk about.
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So we were eating Korean BBQ at Firepan, and our meat just got delivered by robot instead of waiter xD
November 8, 2024 at 6:39 PM
So we were eating Korean BBQ at Firepan, and our meat just got delivered by robot instead of waiter xD
I'm so fucking terrified right now that the senile, racist traffic cone is actually going to claim the presidency and legitimately ban pornography and make me and all my good, honest coworkers into felons with a single stroke of a pen.
Why do people vote for him? It's not sane.
Why do people vote for him? It's not sane.
November 6, 2024 at 6:13 AM
I'm so fucking terrified right now that the senile, racist traffic cone is actually going to claim the presidency and legitimately ban pornography and make me and all my good, honest coworkers into felons with a single stroke of a pen.
Why do people vote for him? It's not sane.
Why do people vote for him? It's not sane.
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Started re-watching Hazbin Hotel last night. Gods, the music in that series is stupidly catchy and I love it so much.
You'Re A Loser Just Like Me Angel Dust GIF
ALT: You'Re A Loser Just Like Me Angel Dust GIF
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April 29, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Started re-watching Hazbin Hotel last night. Gods, the music in that series is stupidly catchy and I love it so much.
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Yeah, Mom, I understand you're not retired and can't help watch the baby every day like my grandmother did for you - so you could go back to work.
But is it seriously that much of an imposition to ask for you to help take care of your grandson once a week?
But is it seriously that much of an imposition to ask for you to help take care of your grandson once a week?
April 19, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Yeah, Mom, I understand you're not retired and can't help watch the baby every day like my grandmother did for you - so you could go back to work.
But is it seriously that much of an imposition to ask for you to help take care of your grandson once a week?
But is it seriously that much of an imposition to ask for you to help take care of your grandson once a week?
Ouka has finally started to bloom
(*´︶人`*)
(*´︶人`*)
April 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Ouka has finally started to bloom
(*´︶人`*)
(*´︶人`*)
I swear, most days now, I just don’t understand how other parents manage at all.
Trying to take care of a baby as the full-time caregiver AND work a full time job feels impossible.
Trying to take care of a baby as the full-time caregiver AND work a full time job feels impossible.
April 11, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I swear, most days now, I just don’t understand how other parents manage at all.
Trying to take care of a baby as the full-time caregiver AND work a full time job feels impossible.
Trying to take care of a baby as the full-time caregiver AND work a full time job feels impossible.
I'm sure my ADD isn't helping at all, but I swear I have no idea how people manage to focus on work enough to get things done when both working from home and trying to be the primary caregiver for an infant.
Babies just need so much, all the time, and cry if they don't get it...
Babies just need so much, all the time, and cry if they don't get it...
February 15, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I'm sure my ADD isn't helping at all, but I swear I have no idea how people manage to focus on work enough to get things done when both working from home and trying to be the primary caregiver for an infant.
Babies just need so much, all the time, and cry if they don't get it...
Babies just need so much, all the time, and cry if they don't get it...
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