[S]o Lots of talented voice actors and you can't even hire a couple to dub a season of the show???????????? absolutely disrespectful.
Naturally, anime voice actors I was also offended. Damian Mills, for example, said through X that he voiced “an outstanding weird character like Kaoru” in three Evangelion dubbing films for Prime Video (in 2007, 2009 and 2012) “meant a lot, especially being weird myself.”
Mills, who also does voice work for other anime, including One piece (Tanaka) and Dragon Ball Super (Frieza) added: “…using AI to replace dubbing actors with #BananaFish? This is offensive and I cannot support it. This is crazy to me. The worst thing is that Banana Fish is an old project, so there was no urgent need to create a dub.”
Amazon also appears to have rethought its March announcement, announcing that it would use AI to duplicate content “that would not otherwise be duplicated.” For example, in 2017 Sentai Filmworks released English dub No Game, No Life: Zero with human voice actors.
Some dubs have been removed
On Tuesday, Gizmodo reported that “several English-language AI dubs of anime such as banana fish, No game, no life: Zero, and much more has now been removed.” However, as of this writing, some AI-generated dubs remain, including the English dub of the anime series. Petc. and Spanish for banana fishconfirmed to Ars Technica.
Amazon has not commented on the AI-generated dubs or why some of them were removed.
This comes despite Amazon's announcement in March that AI-generated dubs would use “human expertise” for “quality control.”
The slapdash dubbing of beloved anime reflects a lack of precision in the broader industry as companies look to use generative artificial intelligence to save time and money. Prime Video has already come under criticism for its use Synopsis of movies created by artificial intelligence And posters this year. And this summer, the anime streaming service Crunchyroll blamed for bad subtitles created by AI about a “breach” of an agreement by a “third-party supplier.”
