Japan to use artificial intelligence to detect pirated websites

Tokyo, Dec 2 (Prensa Latina) Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency announced today that the government will use artificial intelligence (AI) to track more efficiently websites with pirated manga and anime. The cost of damage caused by these digital platforms exceeds $13 million a year, making their identification crucial.

December 2, 2024
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Officials at the agency itself have drawn up a plan to harness AI to even discover foreign-language versions of pirated websites.

The agency acknowledged that the number of such sites has been increasing and detection with human eyes involves time and money, when a highly efficient system could take on the task and protect copyrights.

According to Japanese public media broadcaster NHK, the agency has requested allocations of around 300 million yen, equivalent to about two million dollars, in this fiscal year’s supplementary budget.

Under the plan, publishing companies would provide the system with images, designs, typical advertisements on illegal sites and other content as a basis for its crawling work as the AI works by learning. The system is also expected to make it easier for copyright holders to request the removal of pirated content.

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