TBF, these actions can create problems for us working on IPs later. Even before AI, there were already loc teams who had to rewrite entire term glossaries because the fan TLs and wikis were trash. Every AI patch will require us to do even more due diligence for official locs.
Fucking knock it off!
Dude, I'm tired. Don't make me be a senpai and blog about why letting AI ingest a Japanese game script and forever retain that data is not, in fact, all that respectful to the devs who crunched.
Stop clout chasing with this shit. You're ruining people's first and only impressions of these games.
You may need to ignore all or parts of existing fan terms due to accuracy issues, dev input, big picture stuff, or even legal stuff. But you may also retain those terms to save time and if your target audience is people who are familiar with the work and you're hoping will show official support.
This is a fair question! And in the vast majority of cases, yes, we simply generate glossaries completely from scratch anyway and that becomes the official terminology. What I was describing largely applies to niche locs taking place very belatedly after a fan TL and that terminology has taken root.
Some idiot on a forum somewhere (because my posts do get turned into threads at places, believe it or not) will maybe read this in bad faith and think I'm gatekeeping and just, no. Anybody who knows two languages and is willing to hone their writing can learn to translate, and learn to do it well.
That's literally the only barrier to entry there is to translation at its most basic at an amateur level. You pick something to work on, whether you plan to publish it or not, you put in the time, you write it from start to finish, boom, you translated. AI isn't some enabler; your own willpower is.
I won't name names specifically since they aren't my projects, but it's a situation you'll see from time to time with, say, overdue locs of classic VNs. It is absolutely a team's prerogative whether to accept or discard that fan precedent and there can be valid reasons for either approach.
Everything I wrote also applies to any speculative content made by feeding pre-release material into AI.
"I fed the P4R trailer into ChatGPT and it made a complete battle theme."
If you truly love something, why would you fucking do that? It's not your content to feed to these algorithms. STOP.
