Bulma from Dragon Ball Appears in New Findy Commercial to Seemingly Shill AI

[JulieYBM]

The commercial in question. The statement from Findy.

山田裕一朗（ファインディ代表取締役）コメント
今、AIは私たちの働き方や社会の在り方を根本から変えようとしています。コー
ドを書くことに時間を割いていた時代から、これからは「AIを使って何を創る
か」「社会にどう価値を届けるか」が問われる時代に入っています。

私たちファインディは、そんな時代に生きるエンジニアの皆さんとともに、未来を切り拓くパートナーでありたいと考えています。技術の進化が個人の可能性を奪うのではなく、“より自由に創れる時代”の扉を開くものであってほしい。その願いを、本CMに込めました。

ブルマというキャラクターは、技術で仲間を支え、未来を切り拓く“つくる人”の
象徴だと考えております。そんな彼女の姿に、現代のエンジニアが持つ力と可能性を重ねています。ファインディはこれからも、挑戦するすべての“つくる人”のそばで、その一歩を支え続けていきます。

Obviously, I'm going off of a machine translation here, but lol, this statement does not provide much in the way of confidence.

The production staff from Toei Animation are not credited.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

I hate how the word AI has been adopted, it obfuscates the fact that not all AI tech is generative AI.

[Jord]

As long as it's licensed, I don't see any problem with it.

[Vegeta th3 4th]

Many studios have been saying for the past year or so that they're looking forward to using AI in their series, so short commercials seems to be the logical place to start with. As time goes on, more and more projects will start relying on it more to cut costs down. I obviously don't know this for sure, but I have a bad feeling that Daima will be the last Dragon Ball project to be fully handled by an actual staff of people.

[WittyUsername]

I’m not necessarily opposed to AI being used as a tool by artists to help make their jobs a bit easier, but the prospect of replacing actual working humans with this crap is just depressing. Sadly, garbage like Veo 3 has made this more likely than ever.

[Vegeta th3 4th]

I’m not necessarily opposed to AI being used as a tool by artists to help make their jobs a bit easier...

Same here. I think as a tool, it can make the job performance of workers more efficient, but that's not what's been happening. Microsoft fired around 9000 workers yesterday, on top of the 6000 or so they fired back in May. The reason ? a good number of those jobs and functions are being allocated to AI instead. The US' budget bill makes it illegal for individual states to regulate AI, which should give you an idea about where things are headed moving forward. I remember "state rights" being a big dead during the Row V. Wade case last year, so much for that.

[Jack Bz]

The quality of animation in that commercial was honestly really really nice. Looks both modern and 90s at the same time. If a new Dragon Ball series looked like that I would be stoked.

But now I'm actually confused. Was it made with AI? Is it some sort of upscale of the original anime?

[JulieYBM]

The quality of animation in that commercial was honestly really really nice. Looks both modern and 90s at the same time. If a new Dragon Ball series looked like that I would be stoked.

But now I'm actually confused. Was it made with AI? Is it some sort of upscale of the original anime?

No, it’s made by actual people.

[FortuneSSJ]

Only something as beautiful as this could make me post again. Love it. Truly looks like a modern version of DBZ!
It was done by Daima staff and the animator is confirmed to be Shun Sawai. One of the best recent additions we got to DB family.

Seems like they have been testing the waters for a Dragon Ball remake.
Kubota will to do it, Super Hero 2D recap scenes, Buu arc flashbacks in Daima, new voice actors for the main cast...

Hopefully the higher ups put their shit together and good stuff is happening behind the scenes.

[Vegeta th3 4th]

Kubota will to do it, Super Hero 2D recap scenes, Buu arc flashbacks in Daima, new voice actors for the main cast...

This level of remake would require it to be seasonal, which is thankfully the direction most anime are going in nowadays.

[Jord]

Speaking of AI:

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial- ... ime-series

Sloppy. Wouldn't surprise me if they did this for future DB content as well

[FortuneSSJ]

Kubota will to do it, Super Hero 2D recap scenes, Buu arc flashbacks in Daima, new voice actors for the main cast...

This level of remake would require it to be seasonal, which is thankfully the direction most anime are going in nowadays.

I will take it, as long its well done.

[TechExpert2021]

Speaking of AI:

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial- ... ime-series

Sloppy. Wouldn't surprise me if they did this for future DB content as well

Cygames did the subs for that anime, not Crunchyroll. Certain anime on Crunchyroll have subtitles done by the original Japanese anime rights holder, like Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Daima.

Crunchyroll's in-house subtitles use Trebuchet MS for the subtitle font, and if I remember correctly, they are still human-made. The only thing Crunchyroll uses AI for is their in-house closed captions for their dubs.

[BootyCheeksJohnson]

It's a shame that this is just an A.I. shilling ad because that looks incredible.

[coola]

Speaking of AI:

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial- ... ime-series

Sloppy. Wouldn't surprise me if they did this for future DB content as well

Cygames did the subs for that anime, not Crunchyroll. Certain anime on Crunchyroll have subtitles done by the original Japanese anime rights holder, like Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Daima.

Crunchyroll's in-house subtitles use Trebuchet MS for the subtitle font, and if I remember correctly, they are still human-made. The only thing Crunchyroll uses AI for is their in-house closed captions for their dubs.

It looks like to be animated by AI as well