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INTEREST: New Anti-Piracy Ad Blitzes Through Dozens of Anime & Manga Throughout the Years

Now do an anti AI ad.

On the topic of piracy, the one thing I reeeeeeally want to know is what the “ai translation” llms, these “waaaa piracy bad” companies are funding/using, are trained on. Because it seems like all LLMs are trained on pirated works, even those that claim to not be.

I think this would be a perfectly reasonable ad, IF it was made purely in Japanese for a strictly Japanese audience. But the fact that they bothered to make an English version immediately opens it up to scrutiny, like how many of the series shown such as Kinnikuman have no actual means of supporting an official release internationally and the only way people have to experience them is through piracy. Which kinda defeats the attempt at a point here

Exactly, AI literally can't exist without plagiarism, but since LLMs are basically industrial-scale piracy for rich people, no one makes any ads scolding them about it.

EmeraldSaucer wrote:

I think this would be a perfectly reasonable ad, IF it was made purely in Japanese for a strictly Japanese audience. But the fact that they bothered to make an English version immediately opens it up to scrutiny, like how many of the series shown such as Kinnikuman have no actual means of supporting an official release internationally and the only way people have to experience them is through piracy. Which kinda defeats the attempt at a point here

You can buy Kinnikuman in other languages. I bought Mitsuru Adachi's mangas from Italy or Japan because nobody published them in my country.

Let's be honest. Shueisha releases the whole Shōnen Jump in their Manga Plus app, for free, and still people pirate their mangas. To some people (not meaning you) there will be always a reason to pirate

as Gabe Newell said long ago piracy is primarily a service issue, and in this case the license holders for these series are complaining about piracy without actually providing people a means to give them money (again, because they chose to frame this from a global perspective rather than just an ad targeting Japanese consumers)

EmeraldSaucer wrote:

as Gabe Newell said long ago piracy is primarily a service issue, and in this case the license holders for these series are complaining about piracy without actually providing people a means to give them money (again, because they chose to frame this from a global perspective rather than just an ad targeting Japanese consumers)

I don't know who is that person, nor I care, and I do not buy it: nobody stops anyone from buying manga from Japan. It is simply that they want it for free and in their languages and now.

Sorry? Do you mean Orange that are funded by Japanese companies and got license deals with Japanese publishers? Or their branch "Mikan Studios" that translates for Shueisha?

And, if memory serves me well, was not a declaration of several Japanese publishers and Shueisha on its own against "unauthorized"* use of their mangas for Ai training?

*Mind the wording

Just like nobody would ever pay for games when they can just pirate them for free.

But your point of comparison here makes zero sense. People generally buy manga because they want to read it, the vast majority of people are not going to buy manga in a language they can't read and that has literally nothing to do with piracy or the prevalence thereof (besides what I've already outlined about how companies are failing to meet a demand by not translating more manga yet complaining when people then find other avenues)

That's not what I have said.

I am not surprised that companies complain because some people pirates their content (well, their authors') without permission and without paying. Specially since there is, as I said, legal alternatives, even some for free. You can buy to a publisher in other country (in English, French, Italian, Spanish…), or to the original publisher. Or asking your local publisher, after all nowadays they are publishing almost everything -at least between Europe and the US. I offered some solutions, what are yours?