« We are investigating the matter and are working to rectify the error, » Crunchyroll told Engadget.
At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was « very focused on testing » generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons, after people complained about poor subtitles.
Much of the translation was nonsensical, with missing punctuation in many sentences. At the time, some fans speculated the company had used AI to translate the episode. Earlier this week, fresh accusations of AI use came up when an episode of new anime showed evidence ChatGPT was used to write the subtitles.
On July 1, Bluesky user Pixel spotted an issue with the German subtitles for Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show, one of the new series Crunchyroll is streaming this anime season.
