As generative AI material threatens to encroach further and further upon the entertainment industry, animation—and Japanese animation in particular—has become something of a major battleground , as both sides of production and distribution weigh up the worth (and potential backlash) of using the technology . But over the weekend, a surprisingly grim new frontier opened up in that battle: the arrival of AI-generated anime dubs.

Over the course of the holiday break in the United States, Prime Video rolled out the early stages of a new beta program that utilizes generative AI to voice English and Latin American language dubs of several anime series in the streamer’s catalogue, including the likes of Mappa’s 2018 adaptation of Banana Fish (which has, somewhat controversially, never r

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