One Piece Creator Stirs Debate With AI-Generated Song While Anime Industry Experiments With the Technology
• Eiichiro Oda stirred controversy by using AI to generate a new song, "YO-HO-HO We Pirates", for One Piece
• This isn't Oda's first time experimenting with AI - last year he used it to re-imagine a drawing of One Piece villain Rob Lucci
• Marvel faced criticism earlier this year for using AI to craft the opening of its Secret Invasion TV series
• Netflix and Wit Studio collaborated on an anime project called "Dog And Boy" that uses AI to generate background images to address labor shortages
• The "Dog And Boy" project highlights the growing role of AI in shaping visual elements of animated content, though some animators have expressed concerns