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older weeb here, quality dubs are rare but when found are a tasty choice.
now that most anime sources have become corporate wage slavers and are pressuring teams to use AI, those tasty dubs will become even rarer.
I still enjoy subs, but as I get older and start falling asleep earlier, dubs is the only thing that I can watch for more than 30 minutes.
Truely TERRIABLE dubs are also absolutely fantastic. Looking at you ghost stories.
Its when it's in that sad depressing middle range that things suck. Which is what ai tends to do. Ai doesn't make bad things. It makes painfully mid things. Which is just infinitely worse.
You don't get the fun joke projects, the awful amateur nonsense, or the overly try hard cringe.
Ai could never make a true early 2000 cringe naruto amv with bad voice overs of some tween singing their soul out off key. It just can't capture the truely bad.
Its also why I hate ai hentai dialog. Its unironically too good. It doesn't capture that truely TERRIABLE bad hentai translation that makes up half the fun of reading it!
Ai just turns out 5 outta 10 quality no matter what. Its fucking terrible.
I'm getting strong AMV Hell vibes. 🤌
So far I've only seen one brief push to do the dubbing itself with AI, and it was a disaster. As far as I know those dubs are lost media now; hopefully someone backed them up but I'm not seeing them.
It's possible they'll try to push AI for translating the dub, but I think that the AI would be really really bad at things like matching lip flaps so I think it'll be a while before we really see much AI interference with dubbing. I see a lot of accusations that companies like Crunchyroll are using AI to translate subs, but even then I'm skeptical. There was an incident where a specific show clearly was doing that, but according to Crunchyroll that was a breach of contract from the 3rd-party translators they hired. As much as I distrust Sony, I'm actually inclined to believe them here. Honestly I'm not even convinced AI would speed it up that much, and they're already not paying especially well, so hopefully there won't be too much pressure to use AI (even though lots of big companies are pushing it to a comical degree).