When the AI Studio Ghibali filter that replaces photos and videos in the cute style of Hayo Miyazaki’s anime, it was provoked a hot debate on the copyright of the artists.Even though the studio Ghibali did not react directly to the viral trend, an interview of 2016 with the company’s co-founder also broadcast widely. In this, Miazaki stated that he was “completely disgusting” by AI-related material, called it “an insult to life”.,But this did not stop Japan from advancing AI development.Amended to Japan’s Copyright Act, 2019, is interpreted as permission to use copyright materials to train AI tools without the consent of a large -scale copyright holder. The law, especially more permissible than the European Union or America, aims to attract AI investors to the Asian country.Japanese artists are already concerned about developments. According to Arts Workers’ 2023 survey of Japan, 94% of Japanese artists have qualified for AI violations of their copyright.Opening the discussion to the public, the Japanese agency for Cultural Affairs specified last year that the permissible rule of the country does not apply if the exploitation of the copyright “improperly prejudice the interests of the copyright holder.” But so far, any battle for copyright protection is challenging. Even if the MPs managed to agree that it is not right to use copyright material to train the AI model, everyone is targeted by the approach, Charlie Fink, Charlie Fink, a professor of Cinematic AI, Charlie Fink, Chapman University, California. “So the question is that if the crime is quite big, then how will you probably start addressing the loss?” He asks.Anime industry faces labor shortageAs part of an international brand strategy known as “Cool Japan”, the Asian country is promoting its unique cultural presentations. Anime is part of those notable soft power exports.According to an annual report by The Association of Japanese animation, a global anime boom pushed the Japanese market to a record high in 2023 in 2023, with output of 300 TV titles that year.And AI is already part of the mixture. In March this year, the first AI-in-operated Anime, “Twins Hinhima” was launched. In 2023, a small anime clip called “Dog and the Boy” released by Netflix Japan also used AI-rented artwork to paint the background.Currently there is a shortage of labor in the anime industry, which is due to its unnecessary working conditions. A 2024 report by the Nippon Anime and the Film Culture Association has revealed that workers were worked more with more work per hour below the country’s minimum wage.The use of AI in anime can therefore be seen as a solution to fill the gaps, Rolland Celts, an Aneime specialist and Vaseda University in Japan visit the School of Culture, Media and Society. “The population is shrinking, so there are many young artists, and they are paid very poorly to do much more difficult labor,” he told DW.K&A is an anime production studio that involves AI in its work. This text-image model uses a customized version of stable spread. Hiroshi Kawakami, vice president of the end design, says, tool color, background generations and photos and videos help to convert them into anime, saving a lot of time and effort.He told DW that a five-second anime clip that usually requires a week-long-prepared work, now the AI model can be produced within a day by feeding only two pictures.According to the Arts Workers Japan survey, about 60% of the artists in Japan are concerned about losing their jobs.Despite the possibility of future job loss, Kawakami stressed that AI plays a “supportive” role and will not be able to change humans in visual decisions and creative thoughts between other areas.A culture that embraces technologyCelts say that studios can churn anime projects for late night TV, and AI can help produce such materials. But he does not see it as a threat to creativity in the East Asian country.Celts suggest that Japanese do not necessarily see AI a danger to re -create its version of “One Peace” within a few years.“Shinto in [Japan’s national religion]All things have a ‘kami,’ or soul … so Japanese are less afraid of these ideas about robotics, about AI, about technology, because technology is woven into nature. ,Finally, as he states, the first anime hero was called Astro Boy, and he was half a boy, half robot.Taking hints from internal sources of HollywoodThe AI trend will influence filmmakers worldwide, and many are already integrated into technology in their work.Canadian independent filmmaker Taylor Nixon-Smit, who is writing on the influence of AI on the film industry, says that he uses Chatgpt to generate a list of tasks for pre-showing, consolidate research and draft operating contracts, but it emphasizes that most film production works can still be done by humans.Nixon-Smith told DW, “You still need a costume designer to prepare boards, you still need buyers to go out and buy things, you still need to sew to draft a wardrobe so that it fits the actors properly.”Charlie Fink, former Disney manufacturer and current assistant professor at Cinematic AI at the University of Chapman, feels that the use of rapidly developed technology “will lead a new Golden Age of Hollywood,” a one who “will be highly democratic, as a person can make a film for a few thousand dollars,” he told D.W.Fink says that hundreds of people involved in the production of a live-action film will become a matter of past.For now, the actors are still at the center of production, but Fink says the AI performance “will change completely over the next few years.”The Lump Danger already inspired Hollywood actors to strike on the lack of AI-related security for workers last year.The No Fake Act, targeting unauthorized AI replicas, was re -presented to the US Congress last month. Bill received the support of entertainment giants, including Walt Disney, YouTube, Sag-Arftra, others as well as Openai.For Fink, however, this law can be seen as “the first stage of grief”. In his view, the rise of AI is unavoidable. He predicts that it will gradually change actors and producers, and learn to use AI suggests to overtake the game: “The meaning of disintegration also means opportunity.”
