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Fans slam The Alters after discovering evidence of undisclosed gen AI in images, text, and translation (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

From the article:

Danilov posited that the mistake was either the work of a "careless translator taking shortcuts", or it was "done by someone on the dev/publisher side who couldn't be arsed sending last-minute missing lines for translation and decided to throw them in a random LLM without oversight".

Handong Ryu, who handled the Korean translation for the game, replied: "I was responsible for translating the vast majority of the Korean version of The Alters. Unfortunately, the same issue exists in the Korean version as well, which makes it more likely that the second scenario you mentioned is closer to the truth.

Sounds like this text was either added late in development or simply overlooked until after the last set of translation work had been completed, so the devs decided to let an LLM do it rather than getting billed for another batch of localisation.

Very dumb, especially as this puts them in direct violation of the Steam AI disclosure policy, but given the context I guess they figured no one would notice.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have done translations and even for my own language I often use an LLM. It's the one thing they are actually amazing at. It's also probably not about "anybody noticing". It can very much be a single developer doing it on their own ChatGPT account and the QA didn't notice it.

I really don't care about this stuff though. The AI label should be for gen AI and not revising some text or translation imo.

[–] Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 days ago

The issue becomes: if they used Gen AI to create background filler text, can we be 100% certain it wasn’t used elsewhere in the production of the game?

If they really wanted background text, they should have paid someone to write some, or use Lorem Ipsum if they didn’t want to spend the money and no one would have cared.

[–] duchess@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago

Look at the salty downvotes

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