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A new AI trend has launched a debate, with users inviting Dall-E, open The AI software for the generation of images, to create versions of cartoons of personal images. This led animation fans to start creating art generated by AI in the style of the legendary animation studio, Ghibli studio.
With the prices of the academy and other honors of curriculum vitae, Ghibli is venerated for his emotional and stimulating stories and an incredibly detailed animation, which is done almost all in hand.
The images generated by AI imitate the style and the aesthetics of the original films of Ghibli but lack many details found in real works. For occasional fans, it is a fun tendency to imagine in the world of Ghibli, but for the real fans of the work of Hayao Miyazaki, it is deeply disrespectful
The creator of Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, is considered a legend of animation and art in general. He is respected for his meticulous attention to details and weave the creative social commentary in the plots of his films. From his creative process to the uniqueness of personalities and drawings of his characters, Miyazaki personifies the artist’s mind in every detail, which masterfully captures emotion.
Miyazaki previously declared that he did not want to use AI in his work and is disgusted by the animation generated by the AI which is called “art”. In a viral online clip, a group of animators presented a new AI tool in Miyazaki who made the animation of a monster that used his head to walk. An animator explains that AI was able to create something as scary because he had no concept of the painful step on his head – they argued that the tool was useful because he could have had inhuman ideas.
“Every morning, not in recent days, I see my friend who has a handicap,” said Miyazaki. “It is so difficult for him to make a high five; his arm with steep muscles cannot reach out to my hand. Now, thinking of him, I cannot look at this kind of thing and find it interesting. The one who creates this thing has no idea of pain.”
AI cannot understand pain – in the same way that it cannot understand love or any other human emotion because it is not human. Without human emotion, there can be no human expression; We have a hollow copy of what a machine guesses being human experience.
After a long break, Miyazaki continued.
“I’m completely disgusted,” he said in the video. “”If you really want to do scary stuff, you can go ahead and do it, but I would never want to integrate this technology into my work. I strongly think that it is an insult to life itself. »»
This problem may seem harmless, and many may not consider AI in art as a problem and see it as a more effective way to create content that we appreciate. To these people,, I first ask them to consider Miyazaki’s latest comment.
Art is the expression of its creativity through various mediums to transmit emotion. Creativity, both natural and perfected, allows artists to express relatable emotions and connect to shared human experiences. This is generally how we understood art, but this is disputed for the first time in human history.
For those who think that the creator behind art is not relevant, I asked us what we, as consumers, gain when we delete the process of everything in life and if it is the repercussions. We want our food to be serving in less than five minutes, the distribution rises immediately after the intermission or the art which would otherwise take hundreds of hours of pure dedication to do in seconds. What happens in the years that an artist spends painting a canvas or a musician use to create songs? Art is not created in the conception of an idea or in its final product, it is molded by joy, anger, love, sadness and all the other emotions that an artist uses. This is the process between the two that we want art, whether consumers do it or not. Once we have lost the appreciation of this process, we lose appreciation of emotions that define human experience
SO,, When you see your little brother and his friends post a photo that makes them look like extras of “My neighbor Totoro”, “ Don’t just feel bad for Miyazaki; Feel bad for humanity. It is important to remember that, despite its great impact, we are in the infantile stages of AI development. In a few years, we have used it to replace the animators, imitate our favorite musicians and even write film scripts. This tendency to replace humans with machines is not aesthetic, it should make you fear dystopia where human expression is considered too long to appreciate.
Technology has taken up this new generation.
Max Moore (He / He) is a second year student who studies political science and journalism.