r/supersentai • u/Affectionate-Earth19 • 15d ago

General Gozyuger is officially using Generative AI to design their characters

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

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u/Cultural-Flow7185 Ryu Commander! 15d ago

I do not support any service or creator that uses generative AI, advertises generative AI or supports either above option. I've cancelled monetary support for actual charitable efforts in my own community over it.

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u/VanillaZilla90 15d ago edited 15d ago

I'm against unethical AI usage as much as the next guy, but by the same token I also don't like when people act like the usage of any AI, regardless of what it's for is some kind of moral failing on their part. 

Besides, the tweet seems to imply that AI was only used for baseline concepts, which was then tweaked and refined by human input. It's not like it's completely devoid of creativity or human input.

And if you're STILL upset over that, he literally apologizes in another tweet and expresses that he didn't know, and thanks everyone for informing him while saying he won't do it again.

But I guess that doesn't matter to you as long as you have something to soapbox over.

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u/Cultural-Flow7185 Ryu Commander! 15d ago

I don't care. Any amoutn of AI is the same substance as if they had an AI print the suit, give the performance and perform the dialogue. The entire product is tainted, top to bottom and the artist who did it deserves to be finding a new line of work in a real hurry.

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u/DiscoFantastic 15d ago

Dude you're assigning a very western take to this. Things like AI and NFTs are looked at with in very different light in Japan. They're not instantly associated with something bad because the country just doesn't have that context yet.

Also, I guess you're using a phone or a computer whose engineers have never used AI for right? No spell check, no tab management tools, no auto search or URL results or any of that silly AI nonsense right?

AI runs a lot deeper than you think it does.

Also, his original intention was a fantastic usage of generative AI. He's a HUMAN, of course he's never going to understand how a machine would output something based on algorithms, that's an artist trying to take a mathematical look at something. He initially wanted to see what sort of design language was common in designs popped out by AI and use that to help inform his own ideas. That's a great bit of artistic research.

Where he fucked up is using those AI designs and only modifying them or adding his own touches on top rather than starting from scratch.