Amazon Removes English Dub Featuring AI Voices For Popular Anime Banana Fish After Audience Backlash

Amazon appears to person removed an English dub way that featured AI voices from the anime bid Banana Fish aft fans spotted that determination was an “AI beta” of an English dub included successful the ‘Audio Languages’ enactment connected the streamer.

A video that highlighted the AI voices utilized successful the dub made its mode done societal media and led to immoderate superior disapproval from subscribers, fans, influencers, and more. “Amazon has started utilizing AI to adhd English Dubs to anime similar BANANA FISH,” 1 streamer wrote connected Twitter/X alongside a clip with the dub included. “It’s truly rather unspeakable and shows however important existent actors are.”

Amazon's AI English Dub for Banana Fish is hilariously atrocious astatine times.#BANANAFISH pic.twitter.com/CtiE47W4yh

It appears arsenic though Amazon saw the blowback and pulled the enactment from the Prime offering — and due to the fact that of the removal, determination is present nary English connection dub enactment astatine all.

This isn’t the archetypal clip anime has been the people of AI controversies lately. The upcoming bid Sekiro: No Defeat precocious came nether occurrence for alleged usage of AI art, but Crunchyroll went connected to spell connected the grounds and authorities that the show, which volition get successful 2026 volition beryllium “a afloat hand-drawn 2D animation” project.

The institution and streamer besides went arsenic acold arsenic to precocious corroborate that they won’t usage AI successful their originative process, which includes hiring existent dependable actors.

"We see them to beryllium creators due to the fact that they are contributing to the communicative and crippled with their voice," Crunchyroll CEO Shams Purini told Forbes successful an interrogation backmost successful April. Let’s anticipation different streamers commencement to spot it the mode Crunchyroll does.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.