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NEWS: Crunchyroll Confirms Testing A.I. for Subtitling

sarusa wrote:

I can absolutely not trust Sony or Crunchyroll, who have been bad actors forever - they are completely untrustworthy. Pirating is just the superior customer experience at this point. If you could give me a trustworthy anime source, who would let me download my eps and would never use AI to translate them, I would buy them - like I buy hundreds of dollars worth of Steam games every year..

You can't trust Crunchyroll, but you can trust a pirating site run by a bunch of unknown strangers?

Crunchyroll may be "evil" but at least they have a face you can yell that. I have no idea who runs the any of the hundreds of pirating site online, nor do I believe they have any "customer service. If they did, they would fix the out of sync audio in certain episodes, and fix the buffering issue in other videos. (There are other issues too, but I won't list them here).

People here keep bringing up Crunchyroll's past as a pirating site to spite them, yet they don't seem bothered by the various pirating sites that are still in existence? Heck, these sites are known for taking subbed content straight from Crunchyroll and then uploading them onto their site with the same font as Crunchyroll. They also steal content form other streaming services, and even fansubbing groups have complained about pirated sites taking their content.

And why are so many of these sites/video servers so dependent on raunchy ads??

Crunchyroll has it's issues (their servers suck) but I strongly disagree about pirating sites being e most "righteous" way of consuming anime. Those sites are fare shadier: I don't know who runs them, and I will never give them my personal info. Also doubt they ever listen to their requests, since most sites conveniently upload the same shows at the same time.

And it doesn't help when people actually get angry when you try to fix bad translations down the road because of 'nostalgia'. There's people genuinely upset "this guy are sick" isn't in modern versions of FF7 - original or remake.

Greed1914 wrote:

Machine translation might not catch that a person's name is something that should not be translated into it's equivalent, for example, so they'll keep a few proofreaders around, but probably only let them fix glaringly obvious mistakes.

It's funny you mention this because the latest English chapter of Chojun! Chojo Senpai (Super Psychic Policeman Chojo) DID translate a character's name into a literal reading rather than keep it as a proper noun in Japanese which resulted in a really bad name of Itz Myturn since it's a pun on Ore no Turn, but written differently (俺のターン). As far as I'm aware, a human translates that series and not machines or AI.

Meh, as long as I can get my anime fix who cares?

sarusa wrote:

I can absolutely not trust Sony or Crunchyroll, who have been bad actors forever - they are completely untrustworthy. Pirating is just the superior customer experience at this point. If you could give me a trustworthy anime source, who would let me download my eps and would never use AI to translate them, I would buy them - like I buy hundreds of dollars worth of Steam games every year..

You can't trust Crunchyroll, but you can trust a pirating site run by a bunch of unknown strangers?

Crunchyroll may be "evil" but at least they have a face you can yell that. I have no idea who runs the any of the hundreds of pirating site online, nor do I believe they have any "customer service. If they did, they would fix the out of sync audio in certain episodes, and fix the buffering issue in other videos. (There are other issues too, but I won't list them here).

People here keep bringing up Crunchyroll's past as a pirating site to spite them, yet they don't seem bothered by the various pirating sites that are still in existence? Heck, these sites are known for taking subbed content straight from Crunchyroll and then uploading them onto their site with the same font as Crunchyroll. They also steal content form other streaming services, and even fansubbing groups have complained about pirated sites taking their content.

And why are so many of these sites/video servers so dependent on raunchy ads??

Crunchyroll has it's issues (their servers suck) but I strongly disagree about pirating sites being e most "righteous" way of consuming anime. Those sites are fare shadier: I don't know who runs them, and I will never give them my personal info. Also doubt they ever listen to their requests, since most sites conveniently upload the same shows at the same time.

People who pirate anime don't care because free is free, and people don't want to pay for Crunchyroll when you can get the anime free, albeit illegally with an adblocker on so you see no ads.

Meh, as long as I can get my anime fix who cares?

Their translations are bad, but this is disgraceful. Hire better translators.

It's astounding how people would rather go to sites with malicious ads and use an adblocker than learn how to torrent (it is very simple), and you can pick your subs.

There's always also the option of paying them more than $80 per episode. If you pay like crap and give crap working conditions, you often end up with crap quality.

No. NO. NO NO. STOP IT WITH ALL THE AI BULLCRAP. Stop taking jobs away from real people!

Crunchyroll is and always has been a blight on this industry. thanks Sony. Asking people to pay for machine translations is insane. Especially as Crunchyroll is one of the few streaming services that is known to be profitable. It´s quite easy to be profitable if you underpay your workers and then systematically replace them.