Some of these are very obviously trained on webtoons and manga, probably pixiv as well. This is very clear due to seeing CG buildings and other misc artifacts. So this is obviously trained on copyrighted material.
Art is something that cannot be generated like synthetic text so it will have to be nearly forever powered by human artists or else you will continue to end up with artifacting. So it makes me wonder if artists will just be downgraded to an "AI" training position, but it could be for the best as people can draw what they like instead and have that input feed into a model for training which doesn't sound too bad.
While being very pro AI in terms of any kind of trademaking and copyright, it still make me wonder what will happen to all the people who provided us with entertainment and if the quality continue to increase or if we're going to start losing challenging styles because "it's too hard for ai" and everything will start 'felling' the same.
It doesn't feel the same as people being replaced with computer and machines, this feels like the end of a road.
I tested this out with a promotional illustration from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The model works quite well, but there are some temporal artifacts w.r.t. the animation of the hair as the head turns:
> a variable-length training approach is adopted, with training durations ranging from 2 to 8 seconds. This strategy enables our model to generate 720p
video clips with flexible lengths between 2 and 8 seconds.
I'd like to see it benched against FramePack which in my experience also handles 2d animation pretty well and doesn't suffer from the usual duration limitations of other models.
There are so many glitches even on the very first example. Arm of the shirt glitching, moving hair disappear and appear out of no where. Rest is just moving arm and clouds.
“It concludes that the outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements”.
If it isn’t covered (after all it’s the AI that drew all the pictures) then anyone using such service to produce a movie would be screwed - anyone could copy it or its characters).
I’m leaving out the problem of whether the service was trained on copyright material or not.
I would like to see how the fight scenes in The Beginning After the End could improve from being passed through this tool.
In all seriousness I wonder where is this all headed? Are people long term going to be more forgiving of visual artifacts if it will mean that their favourite franchise gets another season? Or will generated imagery be shunned just like the not-so-subtle use of 3D models?
I know there is a huge market for those excited for infinite anime music videos and all things anime.
This is great for an abundance of content and everyone will become anime artists now.
Japan is truly is embracing AI and there will be new jobs for everyone thanks to the boom AI is creating as well as Jevons paradox which will create huge demand.
Why? Who needs this? Who wants this? I still don't get why you would produce art with generation models instead of letting human artists do their thing. It's only funny as long as it's bad, but once it becomes better it's just creepy and most of all totally pointless.
I am super conflicted about this kind of AI. I want artists to create the next amazing season of Solo Leveling, but I dont want to wait 1 year for it.
You could argue that those tools in the hands of skilled craftsman will create amazing things faster, but we all know what will happen is absolute flood of AI slop in every entertainment category.
AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
(komiko.app)356 points by PaulineGar 17 May 2025 | 217 comments
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Art is something that cannot be generated like synthetic text so it will have to be nearly forever powered by human artists or else you will continue to end up with artifacting. So it makes me wonder if artists will just be downgraded to an "AI" training position, but it could be for the best as people can draw what they like instead and have that input feed into a model for training which doesn't sound too bad.
While being very pro AI in terms of any kind of trademaking and copyright, it still make me wonder what will happen to all the people who provided us with entertainment and if the quality continue to increase or if we're going to start losing challenging styles because "it's too hard for ai" and everything will start 'felling' the same.
It doesn't feel the same as people being replaced with computer and machines, this feels like the end of a road.
https://goto.isaac.sh/neon-anisora
Prompt: The giant head turns to face the two people sitting.
Oh, there is a docs page with more examples:
https://pwz4yo5eenw.feishu.cn/docx/XN9YdiOwCoqJuexLdCpcakSln...
> a variable-length training approach is adopted, with training durations ranging from 2 to 8 seconds. This strategy enables our model to generate 720p video clips with flexible lengths between 2 and 8 seconds.
I'd like to see it benched against FramePack which in my experience also handles 2d animation pretty well and doesn't suffer from the usual duration limitations of other models.
https://lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage
Looks incredibly impressive btw. Not sure it's wise to call it `AniSora` but I don't really know.
Current stance:
https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2025/1060.html
“It concludes that the outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements”.
If it isn’t covered (after all it’s the AI that drew all the pictures) then anyone using such service to produce a movie would be screwed - anyone could copy it or its characters).
I’m leaving out the problem of whether the service was trained on copyright material or not.
In all seriousness I wonder where is this all headed? Are people long term going to be more forgiving of visual artifacts if it will mean that their favourite franchise gets another season? Or will generated imagery be shunned just like the not-so-subtle use of 3D models?
I know there is a huge market for those excited for infinite anime music videos and all things anime.
This is great for an abundance of content and everyone will become anime artists now.
Japan is truly is embracing AI and there will be new jobs for everyone thanks to the boom AI is creating as well as Jevons paradox which will create huge demand.
Even better if this open source.
Wan2.1 is great. Does this mean anisora is also 16fps?
You could argue that those tools in the hands of skilled craftsman will create amazing things faster, but we all know what will happen is absolute flood of AI slop in every entertainment category.