Japan Asks Openai to Keep Sora 2's Hands Off Anime IP

Do some artists want tools to enable their vision faster? Or is there more value in slow art that reaches the same endpoint?

> "When I tried entering a prompt into Sora 2, it generated a succession of images of popular anime characters with such high quality that it was indistinguishable from the real thing," Shiozaki said in a blog post written days after Altman's Sora 2 note. "However, for some reason, characters whose rights are owned by major American companies, such as Mickey Mouse or Superman, did not appear."

So they know what they’re doing is wrong and they’ll just abuse the people who can’t sue them as easily?

Why not do it in the reverse - Japan has shortage of animators, why not use Sora instead to help them and increase productivity?

If copyright industry is going to win this battle then it means nothing is going to stop their madness. The only way forward is abandoning human created content altogether same way open source software abandoned proprietary code and tools. Funnily enough AI output filtering that strictly removes any products of copyright industry might help with that.

When I see people with Ghibli style profile pictures it's an immediate signal they have no taste.