Artificial intelligence, tool or threat to Japan’s manga industry?
Japan’s popular manga industry faces a dilemma: how to use artificial intelligence? Some comic book artists believe the technology will make their labor-intensive jobs much easier, but others have launched plagiarism lawsuits, claiming their work has been illegally copied by artificial intelligence. As the country’s cultural agency tries to identify pirated manga content on the Internet — ironically, using artificial intelligence — the country’s manga artists are wondering whether artificial intelligence is a tool or a threat to their art. Our correspondents report.
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