Comment on Crunchyroll accidentally confirmed it uses ChatGPT for subtitles
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks agoFor YouTube tutorial videos I have no issue with relying on GPT, but I think it’s important to recognize that the translation of art is art. I don’t feel good about the idea of something without a soul or perspective interpolating a work of art from one culture and language into another that might be wildly different from where it started.
That all said, I think Crunchyroll and anyone else using AI art without disclosing it absolutely should be honest about it.
null@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I feel like what makes the most sense and is likely what’s happening is that ChatGPT is being used to do the initial translation, and then a human is auditing that translation and making adjustments. So just a faster way to get the scaffolding and grunt-work out of the way.
megopie@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
they appear to be copying direct translations from chat GPT in to the subtitles, judging by the fact that one of the subtitles said “Chat GPT says:” and then the line in German. People who speak German also noticed that the grammar and sentence structure for many of these shows has been awful and nonsensical at times.
If anyone is doing any sort of oversight, they don’t appear to speak German them selves and are just betting that the output will be accurate and pasting it in.
Someone who spoke German and Japanese fluently enough to do competent oversight could probably translate faster than they could edit and rephrasing the work of an LLM, which are notoriously bad at translating languages in a high context situation like dialog in a animated show.