This week, Netflix releases The Dog & The Boyis a brand new three-minute short film about a boy whose robot dog is waiting for him when he goes to war. So far everything is pretty standard, but the specialty of this anime directed by Ryotaro Makihara is the way it was created.
Instead of hiring human artists to draw the scenes, Netflix chose to create the sets and other backgrounds using artificial intelligence. In the announcement tweetNetflix cited the lack of workforce in the industry as the reason for using technology image synthesis, but did not please the audience.
Under Netflix Japan’s tweet, we can see that the general consensus is to use artificial intelligence art generation instead of human artists. not suitable at all for a very profitable company.
Anyway, AI artwork generation has been a controversial topic in recent months. Artists concerned about copyright issues, theft, and job losses. These problems are likely to intensify over the next few months if big companies like Netflix also start to appropriate these technologies. We let you watch the short film below, which gives a good overview of the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
