The turbulent digital age we find ourselves in has become a modern day horror story professional voice actors and artists witnessing “AI” machine learning technologies are morphing from seemingly harmless fun into capitalist extraction tools that copy and sell their voices and art without permission or compensation. Things have gotten so bad that legendary horror mangaka Junji Ito is feeling a little concerned that AI-generated art is successfully aping his style.
In a recent interview with the Japanese video game website 4gamersIto opened up about his fears that manga will eventually be drawn using AI technology and that AI art, while lacking in originality, may one day “make” something better than his own creations.
“Basically, I don’t think people’s fears have changed that much over time. On the other hand, I always have a desire to create something new and spooky,” Ito said in the interview, translated via Google. “It’s like something you didn’t think you were afraid of before it suddenly becomes scary. I once drew a manga called Uzumaki. The vortex pattern that exists naturally and fear are linked, and the vortex pattern that was casually seen until then becomes frightening. In this way, I want to create a story where the unexpected becomes scary in front of the AI.”
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When asked if he thinks modern manga readers’ taste for horror series evolved out of a fascination with the eerie hand-drawn horror of or not Uzumaki‘s Shell Spirals to the fusions of machine-made works, Ito said readers prefer the former for their human elements.
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“Contrary to the olden days, there’s a word ‘Hitokawa‘ [‘unmasking’]. In the sense that people are afraid of the psychopathic side of people, I feel like that tendency is stronger than it used to be,” Ito said. “However, it doesn’t categorize or verbalise fear, so there are things I don’t understand well. If I can analyze those pieces, I can incorporate those tendencies into my work and create something that sells.”
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Ito thinks Hideo Kojima is a cool guy, not a rival
During the interview, Ito spoke about how much he enjoyed working with Wizards of the Coast to create the illustrations for the Legendary Map Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines. Before working with WotC, Ito had never heard of the card game. Likewise, Ito spoke in the highest tones death stranding, in which he makes a cameoand touched on whether he is looking at Hideo Kojimas or not supernatural &hp Delivery service video game also as a potential rival for his manga.
“It’s not that we see each other as rivals. I think director Kojima of death stranding is also an amazing person and I just admire him,” Ito said. “Manga is drawn on paper, and games are something you participate in, so I was never aware of that.”
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If anime can’t capture Ito’s horror, AI definitely can’t
Keep it a buck, Crunchyroll and Netflix Ito anime projects, Junji Ito Collection And Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, don’t have a great track record of successfully capturing the seriousness and detail of the mangaka’s legendary chilling horror stories. Last year, animation studio Production IG announced it was coming Uzumaki Anime adaptation would be Spiral into its third delay because the team needed extra time to recreate “the quality of the intricate designs and detailed linework” of Ito’s popular horror manga.
If even Production IG’s Uzumaki Anime fails to successfully adapt Ito’s magnum opus (knock on wood angrily), chances are AI art in hell doesn’t have a snowball chance of matching or surpassing Ito’s terrifying art style and storytelling. I hope that’s some consolation for him.
