gizmodo.com: As generative AI material threatens to encroach further and further upon the entertainment industry, animation—and Japanese animation in particular—has become something of a major battleground, as both sides of production and distribution weigh up the worth (and potential backlash) of using the technology. But over the weekend, a surprisingly grim new frontier opened up in that battle: the arrival of AI-generated anime dubs.
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eah thats just dumb they have AI do an entire anime episode, does not surprise me in the slightest it isn’t good. AI is great for problem solving, doing research, but anything that requires you to be creative for, it goes to shit. Just try scrolling through Sora for 5 minutes, you will want to throw your phone off a cliff. It’s not just because people are just trying to mess around, that’s only half the issue, it’s because everything on that app no matter the prompt is the same thing. There is simply no emotion in the time it talks, which is what anime and tv shows what they are, so that entire part is gone because amazon doesn’t want to hire real voice actors and animators. Also, AI is a terrible image generator, it somehow messes everything up and makes people have things like 7 fingers on one hand, I am sure there are mess ups in this anime it made.
It's unfortunate but unsurprising that something like this has happened. This is exactly what the people making AI want companies to use it for: so they don't have to pay employees. AI is not good at most things that it does and it probably never will be. It's just so frustrating to know that not only did Amazon decide to use AI to make a terrible dub for anime, but even to rectify the situation they still probably won't hire people. If you ask me AI is going to go around from industry to industry slowly taking everyone out of a job just because big companies are too unwilling to pay employees. Today, it seems like companies are competing to see who can offer the worst product at the lowest production cost, rather than who can offer the best product. I'm curious to see how Amazon's going to resolve this problem, but like I said, it wouldn't surprise me if they just try and do another dub with a different prompt for AI.
Once again AI is being used for something it should not be. I am not personally a huge fan of anime but I admire the art of it, especially the art of dubbing. To replace human voice actors with AI is again taking away jobs from actual humans who would do the job better and do not (usually) destroy the environment with the amount of work they do. I feel like the industry is focusing on the wrong uses of AI. There are plenty of uses to AI like helping create systems for people to use that do not step on artists toes. I feel like I have said this a lot, but using AI to cut down costs just so you do not have to hire real people is not an excuse to use AI. Big companies will use AI and say that they are just keeping up with the times and taking advantage of the new “tools” that are evolving.
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