Japan will use artificial intelligence against anime and manga piracy

Japan will implement an artificial intelligence (AI) system that will more effectively combat pirated materials on the internet. The country especially wants to combat the illegal sharing of anime and manga through websites.

according to NHKDepartment of Cultural Affairs asked the government 300 million yen budget To develop the system it had to be created from scratch (about R$ 12 million in direct currency conversion). According to documents, losses of Japanese industry due to piracy, estimated at 2 trillion yen (about R$79.7 billion) annuallyThis should serve as an argument to accelerate the approval of the project.

The company’s statement mentions that it has created a tool that automatically detects pirated websites when fed with images and other content provided by producers and publishers. In this way It can detect illegal sharing, website layouts of such downloads, and even ad formats. in these pages.

All this would be done As accurate as human work and much more agile than manual methods currently in use. There is no deadline or details of the operation yet.

Brazil has dealt strongly with piracy

In recent years, Brazil has also come to the fore in the fight against piracy by using other methods of combating it. Here, operations by the Federal Police to eliminate IPTV services and the sale of TV boxes to broadcast illegal content have been the most common.

The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) is developing a method to better block such pirated signals. Also this year, the first conviction for piracy of audiovisual content in the country was confirmed.