Well, if Tony Stark is Doctor Doom now, someone has to be Iron Man.
Using Artificial Intelligence, or AI, to make art is a very controversial thing at the moment. I think it could help with references or a quick image for a post or something, but the odds of replacing real artists with AI are low given the problems. There have been talk about AI scripts, but most of them are pretty obvious and kind of silly.
The current debate is over localization of anime and manga. A few Japanese publishers in manga and “light novels” have opted to have the translation done through an AI program. Not surprisingly, human localizers are ripping mad. It’s their jobs, after all, but they also claim it will ruin the artistic integrity of the original work.
A statement that elicits laughter from anime fans, especially the purists, who will point out that their translations of late has done exactly that, altering the work not for the local culture but the local perspective, aka “modern audiences”. This is one area where the fans may actually be in favor of AI over humans given some changes made by English localizers that were overt changes done for sociopolitical reasons rather than cultural differences between Japan and the West. So who’s right here?
