The First Class of Job Replaced By AI - Anime/Manga Translators

But then they needed to be replaced by something, if not AI, human translators that were not so woke. English Localizers Unhappy After ‘The Ancient Magus’ Bride’ Announces AI-Human Hybrid Simulpubs: “Such Disrespect For The Substance Of The Original Text Is Saddening”

The people who translate Manga and/or Anime from Japanese to English for the American audience are known as Localizers. You would think that would be a fairly straightforward job. Take the Japanese and translate it to English. Of course they can't do that. They feel it is their responsibility to update the material to put to their Leftist messages into the work. They have been warned for years about F-ing Around (with the translations) because when you F around, eventually you will get to the Find Out phase. This seems to be where we have arrived.

In seemingly realizing that they no longer have free reign to butcher original works in service of memes or tired sociopolitical screeds, a number of English-language localizers are unhappy with Japanese publisher Bushiroad Works’ recent turn to using a combination of AI technology and human editors to produce their own English-language simulpubs for Kore Yamazaki’s The Ancient Magus’ Bride.

The localizers would brag about changing things. This is not something that they were asked to do by the authors or the publishers, and it wasn't something that made the customers in America happy. But they did it anyway. There was some question as to why the worst of them were not blacklisted by the publishers, but they seem to have gotten there in the end.

In relation to a controversy that erupted in early 2023, Leonoudakis, one of the most despised localizers, bragged about not doing accurate translations, saying her translation was explicitly NOT for fans who wanted accuracy. And now that same person, who bragged about changing the source material and not being accurate in her translations, is one of the people complaining about how disrespectful it is to the language to be using AI.

Even people who are sympathetic to the "AI is stealing our jobs" position, are laughing at the Localizers. They spent years F-ing around, and now... (Hat tip to Vara Dark: Infamous Localizer FURIOUS Studios Are Using AI To Translate Instead Of Activists WHO BUTCHER Work.)