Japan asks OpenAI to keep Sora 2's hands off anime IP

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/japan_openai_copyrighted_anime/

by maxloh • 9 months ago

63 19 9 months ago

Do some artists want tools to enable their vision faster? Or is there more value in slow art that reaches the same endpoint?

gdulli• 9 months ago

Yes, there are people everywhere who want to take shortcuts in life and do as little work as possible. They'd agree with the implication that this is only a matter of speed, they'd think it's plausible that they'd reach the same endpoint with profoundly different methods. They'd make up whatever justification necessary.

selfhoster11• 9 months ago

Not everything needs to be a race, and certainly not art.

hulitu• 9 months ago

Do some artists want tools to enable their vision faster?

Artists are expensive. The goal is to eliminate them ( just like with SWE).

"Gemini, generate a Picasso from those images. "

bix6• 9 months ago

"When I tried entering a prompt into Sora 2, it generated a succession of images of popular anime characters with such high quality that it was indistinguishable from the real thing," Shiozaki said in a blog post written days after Altman's Sora 2 note. "However, for some reason, characters whose rights are owned by major American companies, such as Mickey Mouse or Superman, did not appear."

So they know what they’re doing is wrong and they’ll just abuse the people who can’t sue them as easily?

replwoacause• 9 months ago

Yeah that tracks.

josfredo• 9 months ago

It is indeed a vile practice, and it works every time. More money to them and almost complete impunity. Talk about a business model.

kotaKat• 9 months ago

Yeah, that's Sam's MO -- overpower and abuse the little people.

mdhb• 9 months ago

Like his sister…

MichaelZuo2• 9 months ago

To be fair it probably is possible to fully exhaust the possibility space for reasonably human looking anime style characters with a few hundred gigawatts of compute.

Just by generating every possible combination of features within human drawing limits.

So copyright as a concept might not necessarily be coherent in the future, at least for anime characters.

Gigachad• 9 months ago

This has already been tested with people generating mass amounts of text. The conclusion was that fully automated generation doesn’t count. There has to be some human curation and creativity applied.

scotty79• 9 months ago

If copyright industry is going to win this battle then it means nothing is going to stop their madness. The only way forward is abandoning human created content altogether same way open source software abandoned proprietary code and tools. Funnily enough AI output filtering that strictly removes any products of copyright industry might help with that.

general14652• 9 months ago

Why not do it in the reverse - Japan has shortage of animators, why not use Sora instead to help them and increase productivity?

viraptor2• 9 months ago

It's the creators' choice if they want to go that way. They could've used pose interpolation for quite a while. Going as far as Sora for it is an overkill. That doesn't solve the IP stealing issue in any way though.

general14652• 9 months ago

It will get stolen after animation is released anyway. So kind of moot point?

hshdhdhehd• 9 months ago

So you get security to guard you warehouse from theft. Which is good.

But why not do it in reverse and buy stolen goods!

cedws• 9 months ago

When I see people with Ghibli style profile pictures it's an immediate signal they have no taste.

Japan asks OpenAI to keep Sora 2's hands off anime IP

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