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Does Google Translate count as Generative AI?

A topic by aksommerville created 1 day ago Views: 56 Replies: 2
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I’ve answered Yes to the Gen AI question on two of my games, because they contain foreign text that I generated with Google Translate. I’m sure translation is not what’s intended to be regulated here… Is it OK if I say “No Gen AI”, even when I’ve used Google Translate?

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Personal opinion, but it's not usually considered, since the game content "wasn't created" with generative AI.


If you remove the translation, the texts and dialogues are still there, and they're the same, just in their original language.

Translations via application are usually noticeable, since there are always errors and it's best to let your users know about that, but I don't think your entire game should be tagged just because of translations.

Officially, there is no list that says yes to this, or no to this, and Leafo already clarified that it's a TAG and it's not necessary to overthink it.

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What would users expect?

I would not expect games with ai translations to appear in ai generated.

AI Generated

Featuring content created or edited through generative AI, such as AI-driven narratives, character interactions, and generated assets.

No AI

Projects that have advertised as not using generative AI their creative process.


While a good translation can involve creativity, it mostly requires an understanding of what is said and how to say that in another language. So translations are not a creative process in the same sense as creating a narrative, writing a story, creating 3d models or images, animations, music and so on. Nor is translation a form of editing.

Oh, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate is not actually what is called ai generated these days. 

Also read here for the difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation#Translation_by_prompt_e...

The short of it: if there is no prompt, it most likely is not a generative ai system with a large language model doing the translation. Chatgpt uses llm and not nmt for translations.

But I also would not consider llm translations to fall under creative process.