Abel Góngora is the co-director of season two of DAN DA DAN, working alongside Fuga Yamashiro. He was also very much involved with the first season, including handling the opening credits to go with the opening theme song, “Otonoke.” And he said he used paper …Read more »
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (a.k.a. METI) is a section of the Japanese government, and it recently said that using generative AI in the wrong ways could run afoul of the country’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act. Namely, METI pointed out how using generative …Read more »
The recent OpenAI craze of making Studio Ghibli style art has gotten a lot of people talking about copyright laws. Studio Ghibli itself still has not made a statement on it (though Hayao Miyazaki famously came out as anti-AI a few years ago), but the …Read more »
The arrests of four people by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police this week made news as the first arrests of its kind. The people had been selling pornographic posters made by AI, but because they didn’t cover up or pixilate the woman’s private parts, they got …Read more »
In a recent interview with Forbes Magazine, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini talked about expanding the business and tariffs, and he also walked back previous statements he made about using artificial intelligence. In February 2024, Purini had said, “AI is definitely something that we think about …Read more »
Futurism, a science and technology site, interviewed lawyer Rob Rosenberg of Telluride Legal Strategies for his thoughts on the legalities of OpenAI letting people make images in the style of Studio Ghibli. Rosenberg is described as a former general counsel at Showtime and an expert …Read more »
Studio Ghibli still hasn’t officially commented on the recent craze of making AI art in Hayao Miyazaki’s style, though Miyazaki’s previous anti-AI comments have been making the rounds. But a number of people have shared their thoughts, negative or positive, including some in the anime …Read more »
Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai is back in the news after his recent Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize win and his comments that he doesn’t think Japanese games should Americanize themselves for sales. This time around …Read more »
Amazon announced that its Prime Video is going to offer dubbing on 12 licensed movies and series — dubbing made by AI, that is. Amazon says this is to overcome language barriers, and that so far there are two languages available to dub through artificial …Read more »
Millions of people have played Pokémon GO since its launch in 2016, and millions have unknowingly helped train AI by doing so. Niantic explained on its site, “When you look at a familiar type of structure – whether it’s a church, a statue, or a …Read more »
In America, SAG-AFTRA has been fighting for actors’ rights against generative AI, and now some well-known Japanese voice actors have launched their own group known as “No More Mudan Seisei AI” (translated as “No More Unauthorized Generative AI”). They dropped a short video, which starts …Read more »
The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (often referred to as the abbreviation SAG-AFTRA) has officially called for a strike in regards to video game work. The strike is about protecting union actors from artificial intelligence hurting their careers. SAG-AFTRA …Read more »
Submissions are closed for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2024, and many people sent in their artwork for consideration. The coveted grand prize gets $5,000, plus their artwork will be made into an actual Pokémon card. On June 14 the top 300 artworks …Read more »
In May, it was announced that publisher Shogakukan, JIC Venture Growth Investments (part of the state-backed Japan Investment Corp.) and more had invested 2.92 billion yen (about $19 million) in having the company Orange use artificial intelligence to translate 50,000 manga into English during the …Read more »
Rahul Purini, the president of Crunchyroll, mentioned in a recent interview that the company was experimenting with using AI for subtitles. This got a generally negative response from many anime fans, with their main contentions being that AI cannot properly translate Japanese with its subtleties, …Read more »
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