Many well-known Japanese voice actors participated in the AI ​​reading drama activity and stopped it due to copyright infringement public opinion

The "AI Reading Drama", in which many well-known Japanese voice actors such as "Demon Slayer" and "Bleach" participated, was originally scheduled to be held at the end of March. However, the official announcement has been made that it has been urgently suspended and there is no news on when it will resume. It is reported that the reason is the wave of public opinion about the infringement of AI scripts.

The project was organized by a well-known Japanese company and invited 19 well-known Japanese voice actors and actresses from popular animations such as Demon Slayer and Bleach to participate. The voice actors performed various storylines generated by AI on the spot.

The event was originally highly anticipated, but soon there were a lot of protests, such as "Isn't this a piracy of the script?" "I won't support the voice actors", "Did you get permission to use other people's works?" and so on.

It is reported that the scripts for the readings in this event are AI works generated by the paid version of GPT, and the official also admitted that many works are very similar to existing works.

The official said that the event was suddenly suspended and ticket refunds were started, with a total loss of about 10 million yen. Many well-known people in the industry, such as the Japan Original Writers Association and the Japan Screenwriters Association, have repeatedly called on the government to amend the relevant laws on AI infringement of copyright as soon as possible.