Poll: What do you think will happen to the fate of the subbed anime industry after the advent of AI subs?

This is a poll to gauge the general consensus of the community. Feel free to share any thoughts as to why you voted a certain way if you'd like.<br><br>**Option 1: Nothing will change, the quality of AI subs is too low to threaten human subs and free fansubs will always be around** (38.79%, 71 vote)<br><br>**Option 2: The quality of AI subs will gradually improve over time to the point where viewers can't even tell the difference from human subs, forcing many fansub groups to go out of business** (26.97%, 50 votes)<br><br>**Option 3: AI subs will become good enough to force the closure of a few fansub groups, but the best groups will continue to thrive due to their ability to provide higher quality subs** (21.43%, 40 votes)<br><br>**Option 4: AI subs will eventually force every single fansub group to shut down, viewers will either be forced to watch anime with AI subs or learn Japanese themselves** (12.82%, 24 votes)<br><br>[Other] (0%, 1 vote)#####Stats accurate as of 07:38 UTC 0:38 November 5, 2025.