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By Chris Snellgrove
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you are aware of the latest hot trend: using ChatGpt to render studio art in Ghibli’s style out of existing photos. Classic anime fans as Kiki Delivery Service and The princess mononoke Generally loved the ability to transform images of themselves and their friends into characters that would look at home in these classic films. Unfortunately, those who love this AI have revealed themselves as the most anime hypocrites because Hayao Miyazaki, the genius behind the studio, once pronounced that AI is an “insult to life itself.”
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Debate
The animation legend behind Ghibli did not talk about Chatgpt when he discussed AI … this was actually back in 2017, when he was shown a more fundamental example of AI animation. As with the fans sharing their Ghibli and their own respiratory transformations, the man who showed Miyazaki was excited about the possibilities that held this technology for the future. However, Miyazaki emphasized “I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work at all” and that I “feel strongly that this is an insult to life itself.”
What does this mean for Ghibli lovers legions that have taken to overflow the internet with their abominable or rendered in the famous Miyazaki style? For one thing, these fans are complete hypocrites. The animator’s thoughts about AI have been floating around the Internet for nearly a decade, so anyone who really loves his work should already know that the man will be behind the animation they claim hate the technology they use to give themselves anime Transformation.
In addition, those who are so in love with the Ghibli studio do not seem to be worried that Miyazaki or his Openai permission studio gave to copy a whole visual style. Although Ai “artists” hate to hear this, there is nothing special at all about having a machine to use its stolen work and then spit out a small copy. Again, if these fans actually took care of the animator they claim to love, they would not embrace his work and use the technology he hates to create an inferior clone.
And while the man behind Ghibli did not talk about Chatgpt in particular, his comments about AI from 2017 are very relevant to our current discourse about this technology. You see, he has been shown AI animation of a monster with a head for a leg, and the man presented him to Miyazaki that this might be useful for creating a monster in a zombie video game.
In response, the animator started talking about a disabled friend to him who mentioned, “I can’t watch this stuff and get it interestingly” because “whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is.” He concluded “If you really want to do eerie things, you can go on and do it” and not rely on a computer to do for you.
Hayao Miyazaki is a genius for many reasons beyond his Ghibli studio animations, and in this case, he immediately He clocked the two biggest problems with AI art. First, art is an expression of human feeling, so there’s no real reason to watch, say, a sad or scary character brought to life by something that has never experienced sadness or pain. Secondly, literally nothing Keeps “artist” and learns how to take a picture other than the reluctance of pigs -a header to pick up a pencil and learn.
Ghibli’s studio remains an anime gold standard, and ChatGpt (for better or for worse) remains a Gold Standard AI. But those who rush to give themselves a Miyazaki transformation using this shiny new toy should consider how much they personally insult the largest live animator in the world. His films are about the importance of valuing magic in the world … which would be so difficult for their fans not to do so destroy The magic, one artist at a time?
