- Joined
- Mar 11, 2020
- Favourite title
- Shenmue II
- Currently playing
- Hyaku Eiyuden, Shenmue
It's partly a 2023 thing because the advancements in AI in the last three years or so have been so explosive. There's still a lot of funkiness with it in general use, though, and a lot of that funkiness seems present in the leaked audio to me. I've personally seen some deep fake Japanese content within the last several months that's composited things into ridiculously convincing videos. Stuff that's been more convincing to me than this leaked audio.Not sure if it's a 2023 thing, to just jump to "it's AI". Regardless of what AI can do, I am just waiting on the official translation to confirm if it's actually fake or not. If the translation comes through and the lines which include the location of the 4th game are actually in there, then this is real. At this point as far as a few of us know, that's not public knowledge as of yet.
If it helps, there are two places mentioned in the leaked audio. As @Kenzo38130 said, Suzhou is mentioned a couple times. The other is wherever the hell "チャンカカイ" (Chankakai) is. Someone joined the discord channel the same day and mentioned it's Zhangjiajie, a mountainous region of the Hunan province. However, in Japanese, this location is pronounced as "Chokakai" : https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/張家界市