Amazon Quietly Rolls Back Its AI Anime Dubs After Massive Backlash

Companies are being forced to learn the same lesson time and time again in the AI bubble era: the backlash that almost stops them from doing dumb things with generative AI privately? It’s going to be just as bad, if not worse, when they inevitably start doing them publicly.

Amazon is simply the latest to find out that being loudly yelled at is not a fun time. This past weekend, the company’s Prime Video streamer faced a swath of public furor when it started quietly rolling out a…