Unsurprisingly, Amazon is now streaming anime with AI dubs. I feared AI voice acting could prove catastrophic, for it can more sneakily replace human performances than, say, a dead-eyed humanoid screen actor straight out of uncanny valley. Luckily, my fears were unfounded.
The first anime streaming on Amazon to get caught using AI voice acting was Banana Fish, a popular series among the LGBTQ+ community that features beautiful animation, and that, at some point, featured some actual great voice acting made by humans. Nowadays, however, it sounds like this:
