“After seeing a brief demo of a grotesque zombie-esquire creature, Miyazaki pauses and says that it reminds him of a friend of his with a disability so severe he can’t even high five. “Thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
Near the end of the clip, after hearing that the animators’ goal is to create a machine that “draws pictures like humans do,” Miyazaki’s comments are even more grim. “I feel like we are nearing to the end of the times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves…””
Admittedly there’s an editorial cut in the end of the clip to make it seem more like Miyazaki is directly responding to the animator in criticizing the “machine” process, but I do think it’s apparent from the video that he also has an aversion to how it’s made.
Altman using this as his profile picture makes his previous statement that artists should be able to opt out of training off of their work feel incredibly disingenuous (assuming he’s aware of Miyazaki’s past opposition on AI). Obviously Ghibli isn’t just Miyazaki, and there exists a lot of Ghibli-inspired art that could’ve been used for training, but it still feels inappropriate to me.
Artists consider skill and human expression to be vital components of the artistic process, while developers consider them inefficiencies to be optimized away in pursuit of a minimally viable product. And the end result tends to be a homogeneous, mediocre pastiche of other better artists' work and/or bizarre AI slop.
Also because corporations are training AI on artists' work without their consent in order to automate them out of the industry.
This has been debated and litigated here ad nauseum so here are some articles:
Agreed - it’s arguably as much a risk-on behavior as the excessive spending they’re warning about.
They are using a similar cut-first mentality to what has been done in the private sector, but in the govt there are more considerations than the direct economic impacts of the actions. In an ideal world the better route is likely to spend more time on analysis before making cuts and to try and reduce variance, but it’s fair to say that might impede the initiative entirely plus they are trying to act quickly before the opposition wakes up.
“After seeing a brief demo of a grotesque zombie-esquire creature, Miyazaki pauses and says that it reminds him of a friend of his with a disability so severe he can’t even high five. “Thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
Near the end of the clip, after hearing that the animators’ goal is to create a machine that “draws pictures like humans do,” Miyazaki’s comments are even more grim. “I feel like we are nearing to the end of the times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves…””
Admittedly there’s an editorial cut in the end of the clip to make it seem more like Miyazaki is directly responding to the animator in criticizing the “machine” process, but I do think it’s apparent from the video that he also has an aversion to how it’s made.