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This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English (www.technologyreview.com)

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A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help translate manga into English, allowing the company to churn out a new title for a Western audience in just a few days rather than the 2-3 months it would take a team of humans.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

By building AI tools to automate most of the tasks involved in translation—including extracting Japanese text from a comic’s panels, translating it into English, generating a new font, pasting the English back into the comic, and checking for mistranslations and typos—Orange says it can publish a translated mange title in around one-tenth the time it takes human translators and illustrators working by hand.

Humans still keep a close eye on the process, says Kuroda: “Honestly, AI makes mistakes. It sometimes misunderstands Japanese, it makes mistakes with artwork. We think humans plus AI is what’s important.”

If Kuroda is telling the truth, then this is an ethical use of AI, similar to the printing press or a farm tractor where the machine is doing the heavy lifting but humans are directly involved in quality control.

[–] arthur 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

To be ethical, the humans involved need to be payed the same as before for the same amount of the work delivered. But I agree, the model of use seems to be good.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Honestly the ethical thing would be to increase pay along with the increased productivity that will happen over time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sooner or later the boss will get greedy

[–] arthur 2 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed

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