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@0xngmi attention always finds automation

@0xngmi now readers will have to sort through way more bad translations to find the decent ones

@0xngmi ai scanlation pipeline was inevitable the moment vision models got good enough to read speech bubbles

@0xngmi check sfx redrawing and honorifics. same fonts across sites screams one pipeline

@0xngmi It is AI. This was cracked last year. It just scales a lot better now. I know someone who's been working on it for the last 2 years.

@0xngmi ai really changed the game fr

@0xngmi which manga are you reading

@0xngmi Nice idea

@0xngmi Manga + manhwa + webtoon

@0xngmi drop links ser

@0xngmi there's good software out there that makes scanlations rly fast.

@0xngmi ai translation is literally hapenning so fast

@0xngmi I'm all for it if the LLM is good enough. I still remember when we had to wait years for VNs routes to get translated.

@0xngmi Noticed the same. Now translations are available in multiple languages

@0xngmi 0xngmi is a manga enjoyer?

@0xngmi That has been cracked for a while.

@0xngmi this is the shape of every quiet AI takeover. loud debates about creative tools go to court while translation just migrates to bots overnight. whole creator markets restructure before the discourse notices

@0xngmi It's fansubs on steroids. Woohooo... No more waiting months for the guys to roll out new chapters

@0xngmi fr and some titles include the ai model they used to translate it

@0xngmi Or, translators are losing their own jobs to AI and need to find work as scanlators

@0xngmi help ser they're also flooding nhentai with mid translations 😓

@0xngmi Imagine if Wild Fang had AI back in his days 🥀

@0xngmi Yeah, that sounds very plausible. The risk is that it becomes a Scots Wikipedia situation: one person or pipeline can generate a huge amount of “translated” content very fast, but if the language quality is bad, it still floods the internet and starts looking legitimate.

@0xngmi end of an era

@0xngmi got any manga recommendations?

@0xngmi Indeed, it's AI that's responsible.

@0xngmi oh wow that's actually a wild thought

@0xngmi Yeah, it's wild how fast things are changing! Seems like everyone wants to get in on the action now.