As much as people would love to think that localizers are getting what they deserve, this isn’t the bad ones being removed, it’s just cost saving.
I for one won’t pay for AI translation of anything since I can do that on my own if I wanted to read a machine translation.
This feels insulting. If there’s one thing publishers shouldn’t copy from every other scanlator, it’s MTL (not saying all scanlation teams do, but there are too many that do). Why the hell would I pay for this.
Why am I not surprised
I don’t know anything about the translation industry, but I’ve read a few manga published by Seven Seas. Have they always been one of the cheaper ones?
Is there an up to date tier list of publishes somewhere?
I don’t know the ins and outs, but they’re supposedly one of the worse companies to their translators and the actual translations:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-05-29/seven-seas-releases-statement-on-workers-union/.186135
https://twitter.com/_UW7S/status/1531626411605127169
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-04-26/why-seven-seas-altered-its-light-novels/.171956