Crunchyroll ran embarrassingly bad ChatGPT subtitles on its new anime series

Jul 2, 2025 - 19:52
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Crunchyroll ran embarrassingly bad ChatGPT subtitles on its new anime series
A screenshot from Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show depicting a blue-haired girl in a white varsity jacket while shielding her eyes from light.

The subtitles for one of Crunchyroll's newest anime series make it pretty clear that the company is going all in on ChatGPT.

This week as viewers logged on to Crunchyroll to check out Studio Gokumi's Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show, many were surprised to see that the series' subtitles were filled with typos, grammatical errors, and explicit references to ChatGPT. The subtitles seemed very much like text that had been generated with AI and slapped onto Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show without first being reviewed and edited for accuracy.

Errors in subtitles aren't unheard of, but sentences like "Is gameorver. if you fall, you …

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