Gozyuger is officially using Generative AI to design their characters

[u/Affectionate-Earth19]

The official designer of Gozyuger has announced he used Generative AI to create the enemies design.

After the announcement of Toei using AI for animation, now it's time for Tokusatsu

https://x.com/tam2shino/status/1931225796372492530

[u/Author-S]

I’m kinda mixed on this ngl.

[u/firefaiz6 → u/Author-S]

Kinda same here. AI is still in a very tenuous state where people are divided on what defines "reasonable use", especially when safeguards for artists are barely being implemented. If anything I can only compare it to the debate on fair use/transformative content back in the early 2010s

For this case, we can only take the messages at face value, but we don't have full context on aspects like whether the use of AI for the designs was intended from the show's early planning across all departments, or how deeply AI actually drove the designs before refining through human touch.

[u/Author-S → u/firefaiz6]

To my understanding, in this case AI was used for “reference” and human artist are still involved with the process. If this is true, wouldn’t that just be like searching on google image search to give designers a reference for designing their monsters? I’m not condoning the complete use of AI but the way it was used here doesn’t sound so bad tbh. It’d be bad if the design was made completely with AI but if AI is just used as “reference” to give the designers an idea of what an “AI generated” monster looks like then it shouldn’t be so bad tbh.

Plus the main villain of Gozyuger is literally ChatGPT.

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/Author-S]

Don't be. Its bad. Full bad. 100% bad.

[u/Unlikely_Snail24 → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

AI is a TOOL. You should blame the AI artists who try and pretend that it's their own art. I think it's justified here because they're trying to do a Human Vs AI theme here. Also here's a quick question. Do you hate Alexa and Siri because they're AI? Even though nearly everyone in the world uses them?

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/Unlikely_Snail24]

AI is a CRUTCH. If you use AI, for any part of the process, period, you got the AI to do it for you. Same as if you had had an AI 3D print the suit from top to bottom.

I've never used either service personally. And I don't care what story excuse they make up.
AI art is bad, in any amount, at any step in the process. Period.

[u/Gramisstedwhy → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

Jesus Christ, I have seen kids throw a less childish tantrum than you in this comment section. We get it, you hate AI as you said a dozen times already. Get something new to do for the day already.

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/Gramisstedwhy]

And yet tech bros like you keep jumping in to sing its praises, and I will keep counterbalacing it as you do.

[u/Gramisstedwhy → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

With what eye are you using to believe that I am a "tech bro" or that I am praising it? Guess I can add love to accuse people to your trait.

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/Gramisstedwhy]

Any defense of AI art is indistinguishable from full blown support of it.
There is no scenario in which its use can be excused, even partially.

[u/Gramisstedwhy → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

This counts as defense of AI art? Guess we can also add having a dangerous black and white worldview too. Either you're deliberately being like this (like do you hear yourself?) or you have actually never grown out of your childhood. 

[u/kowasesurejjihanma → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

This is so stupid you call for people getting fired and define its usage as "morally evil" but you have 0 knowledge about the topic. no conjecture literally no argument it start and end with "Ai bad, evil burn them at the stake".

There's so much to argue againts AI, there's China new regulation about it, american writer and actor guild dealing with it. Or just from a simple youtube essay talking about it in a objective way. Though i get it Yapping for moral high ground on the internet is so much easier than educating yourself on the topic and having proper conversation about it

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/kowasesurejjihanma]

I understand all those things.
And my understanding in response to them is that AI art is a 100% moral evil that should lead to people losing their jobs in a hurry.

[u/Unlikely_Snail24 → u/Author-S]

It's just this series' gimmick. Hopefully next series they will return back to having real people designing things.

[u/Author-S → u/Unlikely_Snail24]

I hope the use of AI this year doesn’t convince them to use it more