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If anyone can run a page through AI and discover that's not what a character originally said and an entire plotline was changed or dropped from a localization then it makes doing such things and getting away with it that much harder.

. But your answer seems to be: If you are interested in something not translated, either learn the language or lose interest. Which frankly helps no one, and is, in fact, an invitation for people to focus only on what they know, which is the death of curiosity.

The expectation that people only need a will to learn a language or skill is symptom of a broader problem, which is that people think individuals are completely independent from their surroundings and circumstances.

Sorry but you're not entitled to other people's works if your entitlement means the destruction of the entire translation industry and people losing their jobs.

Hellsoldier wrote:

. But your answer seems to be: If you are interested in something not translated, either learn the language or lose interest. Which frankly helps no one, and is, in fact, an invitation for people to focus only on what they know, which is the death of curiosity. The expectation that people only need a will to learn a language or skill is symptom of a broader problem, which is that people think individuals are completely independent from their surroundings and circumstances.

Sorry but you're not entitled to other people's works if your entitlement means the destruction of the entire translation industry and people losing their jobs.

No thanks. AI translation sucks

This is the best encapsulation of a losing argument I've ever seen.

As a former professional translator and also founder of a business that spends _millions_ of dollars on human translation a year, I am going to come out right now and say, this argument against AI translation is a giant loser in public opinion.
If you believe that yourself personally, fine.

But telling people "you aren't allowed to consumer piece of media X" is never, EVER, an argument that does anything other than increase bad behavior, whether it's piracy or resorting to crappy AI translations.

That's up to the publishers, not the 'entitled' readers. You're welcome to try to convince the publishers otherwise, but if the technology means that more obscure works that otherwise would not see the day of light in English are made available with AI-assisted translation, I'm all for it.

As a former professional translator and also founder of a business that spends _millions_ of dollars on human translation a year, I am going to come out right now and say, this argument against AI translation is a giant loser in public opinion.
If you believe that yourself personally, fine.

But telling people "you aren't allowed to consumer piece of media X" is never, EVER, an argument that does anything other than increase bad behavior, whether it's piracy or resorting to crappy AI translations

Translators having jobs matters more than cartoons. If publishers want readers to read their works, they should pay real people .