The fourth season of the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime, produced by WIT Studio, premiered on April 4 this year, though to an unexpectedly rocky start. The long-running series was faced with serious backlash after the reveal of the animated opening sequence, which viewers suspected featured AI-generated assets. In response to the criticism, WIT Studio posted an official announcement on April 10, in which it states that upon investigation into the opening’s production process, it confirmed that generative AI was involved. Consequently, the opening sequence recently published on YouTube has been removed from the platform. ……
I recently sropped an anime for AI (Dragon Raja). I’m not as strongly opposed to it as most people are… Season 1 had some goofy looking textures and patterns but I didn’t mind much. But in season 2 they had full generated backgrounds, entire scenes of AI slop, and then they started using it more for animation and it got so ick and looked so bad that I dropped it like 30+ episodes in. I was enjoying the show but it just kept getting worse and worse quality-wise, and the cadence and animations were just gross to the point where it kept pulling me out of it. I started just skipping ahead and seeking through random episodes and it kept getting more egregious with every one, and then they had blatant errors, some not even having to do with AI; like no one even bothered to proof-watch it. If they couldn’t bother making something, why should I bother watching it? Ugh.
Anyways, that’s a long way of saying “good”. I hope they piss off with that shit and everyone holds their feet to the fire. I like Ascendance and I’d hate to see it slopify.