Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.

Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.

Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.

I know a few managers who told Upper Management that this was a bad deal. It's not saving time, it's not saving money, and it could hurt our brand if it damages the quality too much.

But they wanted to stay the course, and they gave us a lot of different reasons why:

My manager grimaced and shrugged.

"Yeahhhh, I know it's not ideal, and that doing it the way we always have would be better all around... but the CEO reeeeally wants us to start using more AI. Can we just do it for this project and... see how it goes?"

In private messages, we all agreed: this was bad for the shows, bad for consumers, and bad for our translation teams. No one was benefiting from this, except for the company's bottom line... and honestly, even that was all speculation.

But complaining to our management didn't do much.

Then came the push to start using AI as part of our subtitling flows.

"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"

Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.

"Well, you can also use it to write client emails!"

Emails are not the hard, time-consuming part of our job. Any person in the industry who's been here a while knows how to write an email.

So literally none of us in the department were using AI.

We were encouraged to start using AI in our day-to-day work. Our direct department head did a 'tutorial' with us to show us how to use it... to automatically schedule weekly meetings for a project.

Except we already could do that by hand, like, super easily.

At least two years ago, we got word from upper management that they want us to "start using more AI".

Why? Because "they want to save time and money".

Yeah. The Spanish ones came out a while back and there were also ones for Vinland Saga and High School of the Dead.

and another

So this one confuses me even more. The show has a real English dub already....which is on Prime through Hidive. The movie was originally sub-only on Amazon.