I can respect the coincidence of opening my subscriptions and seeing something uploaded 19 seconds ago. I guess this is what I'm watching this lunch.

I moved to Japan because of this podcast and it changed my life for the better. Thank you Chris and Pete.

A wrestling match between Chris Broad and Chris Fraud would be legendary.

We were sold the idea that ai and technology would do the hard jobs we didn't want to do. What we have is ai tech taking the jobs and past times of artists who WANT to do art, and enjoy making art.

Chris Fraud and Pete Fraudaldson from the Abroad in Japan AI Podcast.

As an editor full time - at the moment I'm not worried about AI - mainly because it can cut things together sure, but definitely can't effectively tell a story at all. In the hands of a great editor it's definitely useful for time saving (rescuing bad audio or text based editing is witchcraft!), but with your average editor or VA, it's not going to produce useful results and if anything flood the internet with rubbish edits. But as mentioned - most people are happy to put out average videos because who would really notice anyway 🤷‍♂️ Which is a shame

I really think making a video about why not to move would be great. Talk about the paperwork, the day to day, the fuss of having to get your internet set up. The basic, day to day things we don't think of.

As a voice actor, it's scary to see how jobs (no matter how low profile or entry-level) are being replaced with AI-Generated voice, and people's likenesses are being used without their consent. Nice to hear you guys' insight on the subject. Thank you!

As a graphic designer I respect what you do for the people you work with Chris. Thank you for what you do. :)

Absolutely agree with Pete on running Vegas over Premier for speed 😂 Keep up the great work gents!

‘Wild Wild West’ is infamously the coda to Kevin Smith’s hilariously-told (though very 90s) story of working on the never-released ‘Superman Lives’ with the guy that eventually got tapped to produce WWW, John Peters

Great podcast. Keep it up!

As an artist, AI could have been a great tool to help with making art (I know a great animation app that uses AI to makes inbetween frames) but like the real pain is that grifters and tech companies went mad with these AI generators just DID NOT give a single shit about the rights of artists. Like I don't know how it looks to people who aren't artists but my god there's been a lot of work been done to try and get AI regulated a because while it does make dogshit art a lot of time at some point it might not and it'll all be built on the datasets of hard working artists who will never see a penny from it. It's literally the whole thing of people not properly crediting artists on a whole new disgusting level. Like one of the things that really showed how fucked the situation is early on when people used AI to make art based on at the time a recently deceased artist. It was so depressing.

Thank you Chris and Pete for addressing how bad "AI" art is gonna hurt actual artists and you will continue to give them the business unlike other youtubers who try to promote it. That's why I watch and listen to your content.

The best podcast on KZfaq hands down 100%. 🎉 In it

Can't wait for the Abroad in Japan Podcast that is fully AI generated and the recorded scenes are just like the Balenciaga AI memes

Afraud in Siam

People said I would be bored of Hong Kong after 10 years but I ended up much like Chris with Japan. I have no desire to live in UK again and I am heavily ingrained here now.

I randomly saw Brain May in a bar in London many years ago. I didn't even realise it was him at first until part way through a quick chat. We just chatted about our drinks, took a quick picture and then I went about my business and left him alone. It was very bizarrely casual.

I met the lady who played Lieutenant Ohora (from the original Star Trek). She was so lovely. I've also met Pete Waterman (from the 80's Stock, Aikman and Waterman). He was really pleasant and we exchanged pleasantries. Good memories.

KZfaq rewards the wrong type of videos. Those who produce high quality original content should receive a larger percentage return for their efforts and their videos should be promoted more over less original low quality content.

As someone who works with Machine Learning I am still convinced AI is far away from it. AI is still full of instances like FredWhileShaving

That explains why the Maidstone photo felt wrong! Something just didn’t fit. A lot really depends on the training data and the prompt. I think it’s fine to use AI, so long as it’s signposted.

The only "celebrity" I've randomly bumped into is David Bradley, from Dr. Who and Harry Potter fame. Funnily enough, I've ran into him twice, if it happens a third time he might think I'm stalking him

Chris is already a bot

Awww I love Tomas Lemarquis - a guy from Noi Albinoi, I would really like to meet him, he seems so cool:)))))

Chris's AI picture is going to inevitably be featured in a school child's report on the typhoid outbreak and will have no idea its a faked picture lmao

I personally can't wait to subscribe to afraud in japan. 🤖

Noticed on the audio podcast on spotify that Chris' mic sounded like it had some extra static

They can already do everything you just said. With a voice sample, a portfolio of your pictures they can create a complete AI Avatar of you and stick it against any background and make it say whatever they want. Welcome to 2023.

Chris Fraud > Chris Broad

Earlier this year the Swedish game company Mindark let 25 graphic designers go (40% of the workforce) to instead create game design using AI. Makes me sad. I wonder if AI will replace artistic creativity.

Autumn leaves are tricky thing, I arrived too early this year to watch the entire valley of Shirakawa-go, Gifu turned red - a lot of them are still green and yellow. This year, the hottest Autumn ever in Japan for 100 years, has delayed the autumn, and it is predicted to start later in late November. Kouyou (leaves changing colour) has begun in northern parts like Hokkaido and Tohoku (you can go to Nikko, about 90 minutes train ride north from Tokyo) and see some leaves are red already.

#thefaxmachine #faxmachine Greetings Perineum Pete and Coccyx Chris! Kevin from Colorado here. Wife and I are traveling to Japan in April and I thought it would be a good opportunity to tour an auto plant, purchase a Kei truck and have it shipped to the US. To your knowledge is this an incredibly bureaucratic process on the Japanese side? You know, endless faxes, proof of funds, paperwork, etc. It doesn't help that I don't speak the language and will have to be strategic with my time there as my company offers an abysmal amount of personal time off. Any personal or anecdotal advice about purchasing and exporting vehicles is appreciated. Thanks for putting the podcast on KZfaq! Attentively, Kevin Post P.S. Whose boot do we have to lick to get you two knighted already?

In the outro you said you're working on fitness, I THOUGHT you looked SUPER fit in the latest video from Char (cant spell I'm sorry) and I was like "wait.... is this and old video when he was training for boxing or currently recorded?" anyway you look killer Chris keep up the work very inspiring for my lazy butt haha

This was a very interesting topic.

After being a listener for many years and having my study abroad canned 3 years ago do to COVID I am happy to report I made it to Japan and that Coolish was everything I had been promised and more. Now for a question for the @AbroadinJapanPoadcast I plan to visit North Japan next time I get the chance any places outside Sapporo I must visit ? Thanks. - Tai from Texas

Hello Chris. I don't know if this is the best place to ask, but can i add translated subtitles to some of your videos on the main channel? I've sent you an email but in case it got lost, wanted to ask here

Damn I've got the editing PTSD as well, it's so bad sometimes when I give videos to some editors that work with me I don't even watch what they do because if I spot an error it's PTSD time considering I'm working on tight schedules, I used to live editing tho, still loves it but it's a love hate relationship lol

I tried out a ai editor for a piece of content at work. It was unbelievably bad. Heads cut off, weird framing, etc. 😆

Where can one find that Typhoid epidemic AI image?

Compared to UK of course

Glad I Finally Listened To This One In Regards To Natsuki Getting Fitted Out For 2,000 Pound Sterling Shoes. While Being Watched By Kenneth Branagh.

Not a single AIJP cover with Pete on it? Why?

I do art and I think using AI for certain situations is perfectly fine. In situations when someone wouldn't normally commission art anyway, like "What If" theory videos that show what, for example Tony Stark would look like if he were, idk, The Hulk. And using AI just for shits and giggles, or, in Chris's case, when you need a photo and there isn't one. But using AI to replace artists that would normally get commissioned, is sketchy (pun intended). On the other hand, magazines used to have drawings in it, but have long been replaced with photographs.

AI models don’t age or get fat.

I followed Stanley tucci to the toilet and then took a piss next to him and after I asked him for a picture his reply was not in the bathroom and then I said can we take it outside and he said yes, if I meet him again I’ll say I’m sorry I now realize how weird that was 😂 but it makes a great story remembering it like that

"I've never met anyone as famous as that - oh wait, there was Ken Watanabe. I also met Elon Musk when he was still cool!" - Chris flaunting his secondhand celebrity starshine...

Chris, you should start a new channel and create an avatar and call the channel "A BOT IN JAPAN" and have A.I. write the script - profit - I'll take my 15% royalties for this idea, thank you ;)

No way I could tell if you were fake😂 Chris ☝️

Wild Wild West is a terrible film as long as you take it seriously. As soon as you start thinking of it as a spoof or parody it's actually pretty good.

As a person that critiques other KZfaqr's, the comments they leave and the weirdness that is having 4 comments in a row that start exactly like this one here... I find it quite strange

we all know vegas is the superior editing program. it´s shame that adobe much like microsoft has managed to strong arm themselves into a monopoly position. where the only reason it´s used is becasue lot´s of other people use it. there´s literally no other reason. there´s nothing that premiere can do, that vegas can´t only it takes about 3 times the amount of inputs. it´s not a matter of experience either. you get faster at premieres tedious nonsense of course. but no matter your speed you´ll never be as fast as someone using vegas. becaue for any given task vegas just takes less steps. coun´t yourself lucky if you´re allowed to use any other program.

Pretty sure Jared is still in prison. I'd hope so anyway.

It is already too late for artists as we have allowed AI to operate without any rules or boundaries, so it is like trying to shut the barn door after the horse has bolted.

Didn't Want To Listen To This One Because I Felt It Would Depress Me In Regards To Utilizing A.I. To Render "BOTH" Live Human Writer's & Actor's/Actresses Unecessary After You Copy Their Likenesses !

The fact is that people need to stop fighting and whinging about AI and start learning how to adapt to the fact it exists. The current crop of artists who are complaining about AI being able to generate art seems very quaint for any musician who had to live through the advent of file sharing. The companies that continued to thrive are the ones who adapted, not the ones who tried to hold on to the past. Adapt. rather than Complain. That's my $0.05 of worthless opinion.

Oh And I Don't Trust Algorithms !

Please please keep hiring artists and don’t use AI 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I always heard the argument that AI art being trained on other artists art is stealing but I wonder if a human is trained by copying other artists art style, how would that be ok too ? While yes an AI is much faster and efficient, but at the end of the day it’s the same thing the human did which is copy another artists style. Life is about copying and improving on it, where i take offense in, is people not disclosing it’s AI vs human made and that should be disclosed, like how something is handmade and another one machine manufactured

AI is gonna wipe out all the good jobs at this rate

Deeply disapointed by your use of Ai for typhoid video. Even if it is a single image and you occasionally hire artists, it is spit in the face of every creative who has been exploited by these predatory Ai companies. Maybe you will learn better once you are at the recieveing end of such malpractices, but it will probably be too late. You just lost a subscriber.

There's nothing illegal about an artist looking at other people's art to draw inspiration to make their own art, try as you might to make the argument that AI is somehow different when it does the same thing runs into a definition line. How do you divide artists taking inspiration and learning from other people's art, and an AI from doing the same. The short answer is you can't, however people will attempt to directly attack "AI" without understanding the technology behind it... much like my grandmother hated TV because it killed radio, and while arguably it could have... there's functionally no reasoning to restrict the use of TV to save radio. People think that AI is collecting a gallery of stolen artwork and copying it and pasting it into new images, a simple look at the download size of a trained model shows you that this isn't what is happening. It learns from training data of terabytes or petabytes of data... and the file size of the model is around 5 gigs. If we tried to claim that an AI learning to draw by looking at drawings of other artists is plagiarism... then unfortunately we'd have to rule that humans can't do it either, do we want to live in a world where artists are denied the ability to draw if they've ever seen somebody else's artwork? Didn't think so. Yes, AI art has the potential to uproot thousands of people from making a living doing what they love, but you'll find not a lot of people have sympathy for them. If you've been automated out of your job before, you've likely been met with the smugness of artists and creatives claiming that what they do will never be replaced and that everybody should become creatives, so you are probably inclined to return that smugness when they start to realize that pushing people towards fewer and fewer careers is not the answer to the economic threat of automation. This is a political issue, jobs in countries with automation are in a deficit, we're losing more jobs to automation every year than we're creating in "new fields" which is not the same of the industrial revolutions of the past, where there was always a surplus of job creation. The answer is not "cancel AI" or try to claim that looking at art invalidates your ability to be an artist, the answer is to remove the need to work so these artists aren't starving and still able to do what they love. While the corporations and other content creators that can't afford those commissions can rely on AI art, and if the need to work is gone then these creators can work with each other more often reducing the need for AI work to be in the kind of content most people want to see.

so Pete, no one is allowed to draw in a style that another person draws in? what about photorealism? only cameras are allowed to create photos? what about the filters that these cameras apply, such as iPhones always smoothing out peoples skin. If your issue is with the datasets, what about when a model is trained on royalty free images, what if I train my own model only on images that I have created? if a person draws anime girl, that is not ripping of Miyazaki or anyone else. Nothing comes from nothing, everything comes from something. Everything is inspired by something else.