{"id":38428,"date":"2024-10-16T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=38428"},"modified":"2024-10-16T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:52:26","slug":"one-piece-author-eiichiro-oda-faces-backlash-for-comment-about-making-erotic-ai-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/one-piece-author-eiichiro-oda-faces-backlash-for-comment-about-making-erotic-ai-images\/","title":{"rendered":"One Piece author Eiichiro Oda faces backlash for comment about making \u201cerotic\u201d AI images\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shueisha\u2019s official X account for the<strong> One Piece <\/strong>manga recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eiichiro_Staff\/status\/1845445835435409512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unveiled<\/a> Nigaoe Maker, a portrait app that can turn a photo of your face into a caricature reminiscent of Eiichiro Oda\u2019s art style. The (most likely AI-powered) application, as well as a message commemorating its release by Oda himself, have not been received very well by Japanese fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1099\" height=\"755\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1099px) 100vw, 1099px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241016-38428-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241016-38428-001.jpg 1099w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241016-38428-001-380x261.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241016-38428-001-768x528.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there is no mention of it on official sources, Nigaoe Maker, which is available through the official One Piece Base mobile app, appears to use AI to generate \u201cOne Piece-style&#8221; drawings of people\u2019s faces. The fact that the publishers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thunder_battery\/status\/1845773057417453757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aren\u2019t transparent<\/a> about the matter, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/n_katamari\/status\/1845628562931630332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doubts<\/a> about whether the suspected AI model is \u201cclean\u201d (i.e., trained exclusively on authorized images) or not, have sparked criticisms of Nigaoe Maker. Fans are <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wataamemasiron\/status\/1845500017592918213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointing out<\/a> that there is no guarantee that the alleged AI model was built from scratch using only Oda\u2019s art.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550<br>\u3000\u5c3e\u7530\u3063\u3061\u3088\u308a\u7686\u3055\u3093\u3078<br>\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550<br><br>\u5c3e\u7530\u3063\u3061\u304b\u3089<br>\u65b0\u30a2\u30d7\u30ea\u300e<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ONEPIECEBASE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ONEPIECEBASE<\/a>\u300f\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066<br>\u76f4\u7b46\u30b3\u30e1\u30f3\u30c8\u304c\u5230\u7740\uff01<br><br>\u3061\u306a\u307f\u306bONE PIECE BASE CREW\u306b\u306a\u308b\u3068<br>(\u30a2\u30d7\u30ea\u306b\u30d0\u30f3\u30c0\u30a4\u30ca\u30e0\u30b3ID\u3092\u9023\u643a\u3059\u308b\u3068)<br>\u4eca\u306a\u308960\u5dfb\u5206\u76f8\u5f53\u304c\u7121\u6599\u3067\u8aad\u3081\u307e\u3059\ud83d\udca8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ONEPIECE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ONEPIECE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uDUE7mQCZB\">pic.twitter.com\/uDUE7mQCZB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ONE PIECE \u30b9\u30bf\u30c3\u30d5\u3010\u516c\u5f0f\u3011\/ Official (@Eiichiro_Staff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eiichiro_Staff\/status\/1845460764842394072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eiichiro_Staff\/status\/1845460764842394072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handwritten message<\/a> by Oda about the new app has come under fire for a whole new reason. Below is a translation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/utaiamigit\/status\/1845977656367726654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">excerpt people are singling out<\/a> as problematic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e6e6e6\"><em>Any picture you take will become as if I drew it! You must be thinking, \u201cCan it really be anything?\u201d I get it, guys \u2013 I tried asking. \u201cCan erotic pictures be turned into One Piece-style art too?\u201d But they told me it\u2019s being regulated. I went \u201cHuh! Are you joking!?&#8221; I stormed in for a fight, telling them I have the expectations of all of my fans on my shoulders. I lost, however.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eiichiro_Staff\/status\/1845460764842394072\/quotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reactions<\/a> to the post, fans are generally in agreement that Oda\u2019s comment about making sexual images using the app is intended as an over-the-top joke, but the remark is being criticized as out-of-touch with recent issues revolving around deepfake pornography, as well as insensitive to real-life victims of such misuses of generative AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a related note, Oda\u2019s publisher Shueisha has previously been criticized for publishing a <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/nongaming-news\/20230608-19386\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provocative photobook<\/a> containing gen-AI images of an \u201cAI gravure idol\u201d who bore an uncanny resemlance to a real-life Japanese celebrity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda has come under fire for comments related to a One Piece caricature app that appears to use generative AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":38434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-38428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-ai"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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