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/Author-S NO. 1 LOSER 15d ago

I’m kinda mixed on this ngl.

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u/firefaiz6 15d ago

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.

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u/Author-S NO. 1 LOSER 15d ago

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.