Anime Studios Are Finally Fighting Back Against AI Slop

Anime Studios Are Finally Fighting Back Against AI Slop

Franck Robichon/EPA/ShutterstockBack when generative AI first reared its ugly head, there was a panic that the average viewer wouldn’t be able to identify it. But now, years into the rise of OpenAI, Grok, Midjourney, and the myriad other AI agents, anyone who has spent time online can identify a specific “AI look”: weirdly flat lighting, nonsense text, and often a strange yellowish tinge. One theory for this yellow hue (or “piss filter,” in some…