Forum - View topicINTEREST: AKB48 Group Manga's Artist Yōichirō Tanabe Apologizes for AI-Edited Photo of STU48 Idol
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mdo7
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OK, that's quite a story. I understand the anger and the backlash over this since A.I has already been in the news for the last I don't know how many months.
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Fluwm
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Don't get me wrong, the AI stuff is really, really bad. But, like, this other bit?
Though it occurs to me there's some ambiguity in the language here: does "taken without authorization" mean that the subjects were filmed without their knowledge, or that these were "legit" recordings that were simply stolen after the fact? |
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Handyman 68
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The more of this stuff I read the more I realize how technically illiterate a lot of people are. All this stuff is the equivalent of clicking the "Share to Facebook" button on a porn website and letting everyone else know what you're doing
 They need to learn to use literally any other site for AI edits that don't automatically tie it back to your social media account's public feed like a sane person.
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Alphael
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According to this Livedoor article Tanabe and Kudo are acquaintances and had interacted multiple times on X and at events beforehand. Last November, Kudo appeared as a guest at Tanabe's book talk and signing event. During that event, Tanabe requested that Kudo, who is active in gravure modeling, do a “snow muffler gravure shoot” for him and she seemed enthusiastic about the idea and agreed. The '‘scarf bikini’ picture he posted seemed to use one of photos from that unofficial photoshoot as the basis for the edit. So it sounds like she did an unauthorized/unofficial photoshoot for Tanabe at a signing event for him and him posting a photo from that was the issue since it wasn't a commercially available or distributed photoshoot sanctioned by her agency or whatever. |
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Blanchimont
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That was not referencing Yōichirō Tanabe specifically, the whole quote;
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Fluwm
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I'm aware of that. I was referring specifically to the ambiguity in the phrase "photos and videos taken without authorization." But since you brought my attention back to that sentence in full (not sure why, but okey dokey)... it merits pointing out that this sentence doesn't actually reference who might've uploaded the media in question, because of that dreaded enemy of diligent journalists (and editors) everywhere: the frightful passive voice. The photos and videos simply "were uploaded," a thing that just happened... spontaneously, I guess?
Well that's... relieving, I guess? Still skeevy, but nowhere near so bad as it might've been. |
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Alan45
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Interesting, in the U.S. I don't think that a photo taken in a public place, like a convention floor, requires permission to publish, edited or not. (with some limitations) Doing so is not a good way to maintain a friendship, but the agency would not be in a place to demand the photo be taken down.
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Meongantuk
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Japan's privacy law is pretty strict with this kind of stuff. Forget popular idols, even random guy on the street can legally sue you and win if you take their photo without consent. |
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