‘An Insult To Life Itself’: Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media

‘An Insult To Life Itself’: Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media

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  1. In this case I am on his side, but “Hayao Miyazaki Hates Something” isn’t exactly a shocking headline.

  2. Instead of feeling admired and appreciated, he feels insulted and robbed… What a legacy he created and what an amazing impact his works has (and will have) on shaping our future. I hope he can see how beautiful it is. I’m so grateful for his work, and converting my precious family memories in ghibli style is just so magical.

  4. If we’re expanding the us of “AI art” beyond generative AI to stuff like this, then every bit of animation from the past decade has been AI art

  5. if youve seen the original clip, hayao miyazaki was talking about an a.i. walking simulator that was designed to be creepy and use long spindly black legs. his employees were like “we can use this to animate creepy monster characters” and hayao miyazaki was like “this is a mockery of life itself”

    it had nothing to do with chatgpt or generative ai in general

  6. Nothing is resurfacing. He said this stuff 8 years ago

  9. Directly above this post (for me) is a bunch of ghibli style iconic movie shots!

  10. I thought he was talking about his son until I read the whole thing 

  11. So, the images being generated are clearly in the Ghibli style. Can Studio Ghibli not simply sue OpenAI into oblivion?

  12. Miyazaki is a true artist and I hope that AI will fail to compete. It isn’t just the artwork, it is his imagination to come up with unique worlds. AI may generate this too and it may be incredibly compelling. But I don’t think it can force out human imagination.

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