Earlier last year, Crunchrol President Rahul Purni told Ruckus The company was “very focused on testing” for subtitling and captioning speech to text. Comments came a few months after streamer Temporarily taken down The first episode of one of its latest shows, Four sons of the Yuzuki family, People complained about poor subtitles.
Most of the translation with missing punctuation in many sentences was fruitless. At that time, some fans estimated that the company used AI to translate the episode. Now it seems that fixed proof crunchrol is using Chatgpt to translate the new anime episode, and the results are as bad as you expect.
On 1 July, Bluuski user Pixel Moldy An issue with German subtitle for Necronomic and cosmic horror showOne of the new chain crunchrol is streaming this anime season. Beyond a general slope, a line began with the words “Chatgt said …” during a decisive scene in the show’s debut episode. The episode was able to verify the Engadget independently involves AI-borne translation. If you are eager, the English subtitle is not much better, as seen in the screenshots up and down.
Crunchyroll did not immediately respond to Engadget’s commentary request.
People are quite upset about subtitles. Crunchyroll membership begins at $ 8 per month, and since its acquisition by Sony, Seva is the leading player outside Japan. “This is not acceptable. How can we expect to pay for a service that clearly does not care about the quality of its products?” Pixel wrote in her original post. As the writing of this article, his post has been quoted more than 300 times and rearranged by thousands of others. Many fans say that they call the official AI-generated translations “unwanted”. People are on reddit Expressed similar frustrations,
The irony is that when Purini revealed that Crunchrol was testing the generic AI tool for subtitle, he said that a part of inspiration was to stop piracy. He argued that the technology would allow the company to begin streaming close to its original Japanese release, by adding gaps between the official release, sometimes fans were pushed into the Torrent Show.
