hopefully you could recover it. so many translation, interview, and information would be lost.

not exactly, post th8/9, after the internet became widespread he uses free to use/license free stock images, hence why nobody is credited for those stock images. before that, he uses stock images he got from CDs. he never really "asked for permission" or "buy the license" for stock images.

especially on MTL case. people who sees it as a "replacement for translator" never actually tried playing a game with MTL because holy shit, it fucking sucks. it was never meant to be a replacement, it's an accessibility tool for playing niche rpgmaker erogame from dlsite bcs those thing rocks.

Im sorry but this is really reaching it. I don't like it when MTL was used for games, especially something like a VN but i don't think Comparing MTL to gen ai is fair.

This one upset me the most because while the summary was nice, a lot of it is very out of context and its very zun focused and ignore a lot of what other people says there. Genuinely if you want to be a hater, be a knowledgeable hater.

Its not even an "interview". Its group talk with zun and a bunch of his friends. Many of those who has distaste for ai including beatmario. The summary (which got shared around) is very neutral which is really different from the group talk where they Bash ai music and game devs quite a lot lol.

The other reason to believe this is because there's some ai background in 19 as well which is also probably because of the Adobe stock images

he's been using stock photos for 20 years and got no problem from it. So i don't see the reason why he changed his method.

The bg doesnt seems to be generated from gpt model as its very inconsistent and i doubt zun know how to use SD and other diffussion model. So its most likely from Photoshop stock images