By Chris Snellgrove
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Unless you live under a rock, you are aware of the latest hot internet trend: use Chatgpt to make art of Ghibli-Studio style from existing photos. The so-called classic anime fans as Kiki delivery service And Princess Mononoke have generally been delighted with the ability to transform images of themselves and their friends into characters who would look at home in these classic films. Unfortunately, those who love this Ghibli AI have revealed themselves as the greatest hypocrites in the anime because Hayao Miyazaki, the genius behind the studio, said IA was “an insult to life itself”.
Hayao Miyazaki and the controversy Ghibli Ai
The legend of animation behind Ghibli did not speak a chatgpt when he discussed AI … It was actually back in 2017, when he was shown a more fundamental example of IA animation. As with fans sharing their own talents from Ghibli Ai, the man showing Miyazaki was enthusiastic about the possibilities that this technology held for the future. However, Miyazaki stressed that “I would never want to integrate this technology into my work” and that “I strongly think that it is an insult to life itself”.
What does this mean for the legions of Ghibli enthusiasts who took to flood the internet with their abominations of AI rendered in the famous style of Miyazaki? On the one hand, these fans are complete hypocrites. The animator’s thoughts on AI have been floating on the internet for almost a decade, so whoever loves his work should already know that the man behind the animation they claim to love hated the technology they use to give oneself a anime youthful cure.
In addition, those who are so in love with the Ghibli Ai studio do not really seem to worry about whether Miyazaki or his studio has granted Openai the permission to copy an entire visual style. While the “artists” of AI hate hearing this, there is absolutely nothing special to make a machine use his stolen work, then spits a small soulless copy. Again, if these fans really cared about the animator they claim to love, they would make all my heart to steal his work and use the technology he hates to create a lower clone.
And although the man behind Ghibli did not speak specifically about Chatgpt, his comments on the 2017 AI are very relevant for our current speech on this technology. You see, we showed him an animation AI of a monster with a head for a leg, and the man presenting him told Miyazaki that it might be useful to create a monster in a zombie video game.
In response, the host began to talk about one of his disabled friends and said: “I cannot look at this kind of thing and find it interesting” because “the one who creates this thing has no idea what pain is.” He concluded that “if you really want to do scary stuff, you can go ahead and do it” and not count on a computer to do it for you.
Hayao Miyazaki is a genius for many reasons beyond his Studio Ghibli animations, and in this case, he immediately Humanized the two biggest problems with the art of AI. First, art is an expression of human feeling, so there is no real reason to look, say, a sad or frightening character who has never known sadness or pain. Second, literally Nothing Prevents an “artist” from the AI from really learning to draw, with the exception of a greedy reluctance to take a pencil and to learn.
Studio Ghibli remains the organ stallion of the anime, and chatgpt (for the better or for the worst) remains the IA stallion. But those who rush to give themselves a make -up of Miyazaki by using this new brilliant toy should consider how personally they insult the greatest living animator in the world. His films are on the importance of appreciating magic in the world … Would it be really so difficult for their fans not to completely destroy Magic, an artist at a time?
