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The Japanese government is backing a new and highly ambitious plan to purge online anime and manga piracy using artificial intelligence, recently announcing a new AI project worth two million dollars.

NHK reports that the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs is building an AI detection system to more effectively counter the rise of anime and manga piracy sites, allocating 300 million yen (~US$2 million) in this year’s supplementary budget proposal. The system will detect images online by having the AI learn information such as the ‘layout and advertisements of pirated sites’ and ‘images of content provided by publishers,’ allowing ‘rights holders to smoothly apply for the removal of detected content.’

The Japanese government’s new AI tracker would follow other anti-piracy efforts, such as WEBTOON’s bespoke Toon Radar technology. This embeds invisible information into webtoons to identify the source of leaks. The company has stressed its “zero-tolerance” approach to piracy, regularly filing subpoenas, recently suing a suspected two individuals for $700k, and announcing this week that it was responsible for closing 70 piracy sites worth 1.2 billion annual visits.

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