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Message: [QUOTE="UnDubious, post: 97497, member: 4030"] They would already be useful if we were trying to translate French games into English or something, but 99% of the time we want translations from Japanese, and they still suck. I mess with it quite a bit for non-game stuff. It makes tons of mistake - it still can't tell who's speaking or who or what is being talked about most of the time, and fails to recognize expressions and figures or speech. It still produces complete nonsense sentences regularly. I've done comparisons using different software, and for example, DeepL will produce more readable sentences, but it'll just drop essential information from the original text if it doesn't know what to do with it. Too much of Japanese is context-dependant, both grammatically and culturally. As it is now, if a game requires English text to be appreciated - any RPG, adventure, or action-adventure game, anything with a real story or dialogue - AI will ruin your enjoyment of the game. I tried playing Zill O'Ill on the PS2 using that translation last year and it was horrible, I gave up just minutes in. Same with one of the PSP Shining games. Unreadable dialogue. A lot of progress was made between, say, 2015 and the early 2020s, but I haven't noticed progress in the last couple years. A proper translator going over stuff would have to essentially re-translate everything if they have standards. A person who doesn't understand Japanese going over stuff to make it readable will try to fix what they can, but they're working from a very flawed translation, so serious errors and issues will remain. It's not a solution at this point. [/QUOTE]

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