These types of groups like kaizen and myth definitely use it lol, the volume and speed they churn out chapters is impossible with it. And if u look at their home sites, these groups r literally just clones of each other (wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same group behind all of them: asura, paradise, kaizen, diva etc.)
And last time I checked some of these groups literally accept crypto as payment for their shitty translations. Or the usual overpriced coins system. And somehow there must’ve been a substantial amount of dumbasses that actually buy into these overpriced currency systems bc scan groups r popping out left and right to “claim” more manhwas to monetize. Minimum coin spend on those sites cost more than buying entire series legally for some machine translated slop.

Lazy ass scans groups stay using ai for translations and still not even translating properly. if ur gonna ai the translation for profit (almost always significantly more than the raws cost)how hard can it be to actually clean + typeset the panels. Like how tf u translate a sex scene without the schlop..