ByPaul Tassi,
Senior Contributor.
As giant tech corporations try to jam AI into every possible orifice in the world, we are consistently getting new examples day in and day out of that going poorly. This week, that’s Amazon Prime Video introducing dubs to the beloved anime Banana Fish, which has needed them for a long while. The problem? They’re AI. Not just AI, horrible AI.
You can check out some of these examples below. The intonation and line reading (“reading”) make Siri look like Meryl Streep. It is technically the English language, but that’s about it, and it has outraged both fans of Banana Fish, but really of all anime, and just those who respect voice acting in general.
The idea here that Amazon saving the estimated $75 an hour it would have to pay voice actors, something like $50,000 for the show in total, when it’s a trillion-dollar corporation feels gross. But to do so when it’s just so offensively, obviously bad is even worse. Here’s a viral tweet from voice actor/dub maker Daman Mills, which went viral on Twitter with 47,000 likes and 3.3 million views.
