Using genAI to translate a game is as bad as using it to make assets

Man, I'm tired. I worked 7 days a week in May because I was dealing with some important projects, but also because I've got bills to pay and my rates have been mostly frozen for the last few years due to the rise of LLMs as a "translation solution". Count me lucky, because I'm one of the increasingly few people still working with only human-made translation and text, as a lot of companies still turn to machine translation and, now, LLMs as a way to save money. Which is funny, because as far as I know, the video game industry is the most profitable entertainment business in the world, so why does it need to be constantly cutting costs? Anyway, I digress. These "translation solutions" actually create more problems than they solve: not only companies using them pay less for the work, but they expect you to work more, not only to make it up in more earnings/income/returns, but because they are sold as a "faster solution". And, well, they are not: it takes as much time to review a…