We could just create our own anime in the near-future through artificial intelligence.

alshu said:
"own anime"

Even if true, that would be one especially dumb, woodenly written anime and woodenly dubbed anime, with generic royalty free music and incomprehensible editing.

Dannyr22 said:
Actually, there is no limit.

zombie_pegasus said:
I think AI will cause some interesting changes in the industry. Smaller emerging studios that otherwise wouldn't be able to produce their own shows without a lot of external investment will suddenly have a large portion of their manpower requirements alleviated. This will mean there will be more good shows as the barrier to entry is lowered, but there will also be more bad shows as studios who never should have existed are allowed to enter the market. I'd imagine the big boys will also start pumping out more anime than ever with their new more powerful tools and new competition, and studios like JC Staff and A-1 Pictures might be making 5 anime a season just because they can.

I don't think there's any reason to automate the initial writing process considering the vast amounts of manga, light novels, as well as Western novels out there that could be adapted, although you probably could get an AI to look at a source material and spit out an adequate script based on it. If AI takes over too much of the process I could see MAL rejecting some AI generated anime in the future, similar to how they allow Naria Girls on MAL but vtuber streams are not considered anime. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

Ager_ said:
In the next 5 years? Even a 50 would be questionable, you won't just create 24x12 mins of high quality animation from a button, unless someone decides to make a Sentient AI which in itself is a pipe dream, sure AI will enter the industry as a "tool" but it isn't taking over the entire industry, only repetitive tasks will be easier to handle and probably lesser jobs but dishing out entire anime from a few prompts? yeh no.

Also I am pretty sure half the stuff these headlines mention is clickbait, this is just like the "Metaverse and NFT" hype lol, give it 2 years and it will go away.

Dannyr22 said:
It can already be done, technically, just requires a lot of effort. You have to create a story and characters yourself, then generate 3000 pictures using DALL-E 2, use the mod to generate voice lines and thus one episode can be generated without requiring a team. 

The author is more interested in when main anime studios, such as Toei Animation, realize that they can massively cut overhead expenses by firing all animators (sad but inevitable, they're experimenting with it), and the cost reduction would inevitably lead to a massive explosion of anime being produced since the cost of animation will decline by 1000x. 

Crow_Black said:
lol i think an ai is behind the isekai oversaturation honestly.