[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

How can you be sure that this isn't just a photo collage, passed through several filters to avoid copyright and look more aesthetically pleasing? I don't see much difference between them and the green screen of Saber, the LED panels of King Ohger or this trailer of Bunboomger:

Bro, I get it, you're excited for Zeztz. I am too. Very excited.

But you're 100% gaslighting yourself if you think those backgrounds aren't AI-gnereated. Toei is literally on record saying they plan to use AI for storyboards, backgrounds, in-between frame correction on their animated projects. There is absolutely no reason they'd draw some sort of ethical line at Kamen Rider.

These are not even particularly good AI images. The current GhatGPT 4o spits out less obviously-AI-looking images than what was used in the teaser. They each have weird, swirling, plastic-y details, bits where objects blend together in totally nonsensical ways, oddly non-converging horizon lines, etc. These aren't issues of layered filters -- these are structural issues with the fundamental composition of the images which are characteristic of AI-generated graphics. It's frustrating that some fans are seeing AI where there isn't any. The suit, motorcycle, etc... are clearly real. But that doesn't mean AI isn't being used at all.

The BoonBoomger trailer you linked to has dodgy looking CGI, but it is still clearly human-made. There's a human understanding of shape, form, and space. There's s unique flare and design to everything. The difference between that and AI is very clear. AI would in many ways look higher quality than the CGI in that trailer -- until you start seeing all of the strange ways certain elements in the shots have no understanding of how 3-dimensional objects work in the real world.

For the record, I don't think using AI art for a few half-second shots in a promo is a cancellable offense. My guess is that this will be limited to promos, as AI video isn't nearly good enough at this point to be used in a professional production. But denying the reality that AI is being used, or will be used in the future, given everything we've heard about Toei's plans, is a bit silly.