Bandai Warns Against AI-Generated Images Using its Trademarks – Interest

Bandai, a Japanese multinational toy and hobby maker, issued a statement on Tuesday involving generated AI images posted on social media, portraits of its company symbols, brand logos and other registered trademarks. Press Release Read:

Pay attention to the images generated by AI

We currently know that images of two company symbols, brand logos and other registered trademarks and other items are generated using Generation AI and published on social media.
We have received inquiries about this, but please note that these images are not our products.
For information about our products, please check the official website.

Warning release

Depending on the generated image, posting it on social media may cause suspicion of copyright infringement or other illegal activity.
Please note when publishing.
Also, please do not publish generated images in a way that may cause others to mistake it for our products.

About query

We cannot respond to inquiries about products other than those of the product.
Thank you for your understanding.

When the company promotes its products, the Bandai logo is included in the press release.

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HachimaKikō posts about Bandai’s statement include September 2 x (previously twitter) Post from official account GoogleGemini Generative AI Chatbot Application. Google Gemini’s September 2 post has generated AI images where it appears to be the red Bandai logo on the character’s box:

As of press time, Google No statement has been issued regarding the similarity of the company logo seen in the image Google Gemini.

Source: Bandai Spirit‘x/twitter account,,,,, You’re trying,,,,, Google Gemini’s X/twitter account pass hachimakikō