Art and AI

Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Nightmare

“…Unsurprisingly, backlash soon followed: People raised concerns about OpenAI profiting off of another company’s intellectual property, pointed to a documentary clip of Miyazaki calling AI an “insult to life itself,” and mused about the technology’s threats to human creativity.”

What is the future of intellectual property? What happens when creatives die and no one is left to evaluate output generated by ChatGPT? No one left to create organically from scratch?

The fall of Rome. It seems like every great civilization inevitably ends, and I believe that the more we allow computers to replace original thought and creativity, the closer we get to our own fall. The good news is that mankind often rises from the ashes and rebuilds (eventually).

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A week or so ago, SIL made a family portrait using that app. Looks like a frame that was taken out of one of Studio Ghibli movies! :flushed_face:

Use of computers in cinematography and especially animation is evolving and expanding. However, human creativity is still the driving force, as the recent Oscars winners show.

Someone once said that every monster or mythological creature ever drawn by man compiles elements of known to that man earthly creatures. We can’t draw something we haven’t seen or heard of. Ditto AI. It is all about the training data sets it is using.

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More on this subject:

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle-engineers-ghibli-style-image-goes-viral-and-sparks-some-backlash-over-ai-art/

And this:

What happened to lawsuits over training AI with copyrighted materials?

If most anyone can create Miyazaki’s look with their own AI, how can Miyazaki defend his work, or stay in demand?

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