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🎗️ Stop the war. 🏳️‍🌈 Infosec software developer and really-bad-puns guy (he/him) 🌐 https://smileybarry.com

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PART 1/2 We've seen a wide range of accusations regarding the use of Al-generated content in The Alters, and we feel it's important to clarify our approach and give you more context. Al-generated assets were used strictly as temporary WIPs during the development process and in a very limited manner. Our team has always prioritized meaningful, handcrafted storytelling as one of the foundations of our game. During production, an Al-generated text for a graphic asset, which was meant as a piece of background texture, was used by one of our graphical designers as a placeholder. This was never intended to be part of the final release. Unfortunately, due to an internal oversight, this single placeholder text was mistakenly left in the game. We have since conducted a thorough review and confirmed that this was an isolated case, and the asset in question is being updated. For transparency, we've included a screenshot to show how and where it appears in the game. While we do not want to downplay the situation, we also want to clearly show its limited impact on your gaming experience. In addition to that, a few licensed movies that the alters can watch in the social area of the base were added at the final stage of development. While those were externally produced, our team was not involved in the creative process, and these required additional last-minute translations. Due to extreme time constraints, we chose not to involve our translation partners and had these videos localized using Al to have them ready on launch. It was always our intention to involve our trusted translation agencies after release as part of our localization hotfix, to ensure those texts would be handled with the same care and quality as the rest of the game. That process is now underway, and updated translations are being implemented. END OF PART 1/2
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Translation: But we are all to blame. For wasting our [state's] energy on arguments over our villa, forgetting the wild animals in the jungle around us. [context: "villa in the jungle" is an old metaphor for the "Israel is the only western democracy in the middle east" idea] For hating each other in an inane streak of elections, followed by unjust hatred over what looks like nothings at this point. While our enemy is already on our fences ["of separation", nickname for the Israeli-West Bank border], we were preoccupied with other fences of separation. The thought of Hamas HQ planning this bloodshed and seeing on TV what us Jews are busy with -- leaves me restless. For forgetting what it is to be brothers and instead getting[?] a war. And it's not too late to fix it. And to stop the [inside] fighting. It has a real existential impact. [context: kind of hard to translate that last idiom]
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