www.hollywoodreporter.com: At the start of Hayao Miyazaki’s modern classic Spirited Away, the young heroine Chihiro and her parents are exploring a seemingly abandoned theme park when a boy named Haku greets her with a warning: Chihiro must cross back over a dry riverbed and head home before sunset while she still can. She fails to do so, and soon finds the river swollen and her parents turned into pigs, stranded in a new world she doesn’t understand.
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Since first seeing the rise of the Ghibli style AI art, I have been disgusted. Not only is this the standard AI art theft where the machine combines other peoples art into one big conglomerate without their permission, but it is taking art from someone who famously spent years animating a 4 second animation and has very publicly spoken out about his distaste for AI art. I am not even a Studio Ghibli fan, and I’ve never seen one of their films, but I greatly respect Miyazaki’s style, commitment to his work, and the important impact he and his company have had on the animation industry. If we are starting here, and people have such a positive, viral reaction to AI Ghibli, then it's only a matter of time before this spreads further and every successful artist is copied. The day that a Vivziepop AI bot appears is the day I blow up the capital.
Someone once told me that AI was for lazy people and I believe that to be true. Many people will argue that art is inaccessible because of this or that. Art is inaccessible from one standpoint which is cost. Many people will find themselves buying expensive pencils and paper to further develop their style but nothing is stopping someone from grabbing random materials and just faffing around. Art is about trial, error, and development. Growing your art over time and developing a specific style that reflects one's self reflection onto the world. Lazy people who don't want to spend the time that it takes to learn a new skill will argue that AI allows art to become more accessible for the everyday person but that's just not true. AI makes art easy and boring. There is nothing interesting about the art that AI creates because there is no story behind how it was made.
This is just gross. I hate it. I hate it. Why on earth is this legal? With all the talk about AI all the time i've always wondered why for some reason, copyright claims just don't apply to AI. for multiple reasons the first one being that nothing good comes of it. Wow. so cool, you can make your profile picture studio ghibli themed. Do you know how many gallons of water you just burned away doing that? Congrats, you AI art looks like utter sugar honey iced tea dude. I feel like the government needs to intervene about all of this like pronto pronto. Why is it now ethical for companies to produce a cheap copy of an artist's style and work? Is the answer not obvious? Why are we letting AI art gain so much recognition or as the end all answer that somehow now proves that all art is dumb because AI could just recreate it. So so sad.
Ai imitating studio ghibli’s art style for their own ai generation model has always felt extremely disrespectful to me. This isn’t like an artist putting in the painstaking work of learning and analyzing the unique and pleasing style that Ghibli is known for it’s just an algorithm stealing the work of Ghibli artists and without asking permission using their work to generate their ai slop for their app.I also can’t see how people can defend this as Miyazaki himself had denounced ai when he first say it a couple years ago, so I don’t see a world in which he would be ok with this. I don’t see how someone could call themselves a fan if they directly disrespect the creator and their work like that just to generate a badly done image of someone in the Ghibli style. Along with this news the concept of the “ai artist” has become a term as well which I think isn’t a thing, if you use ai to generate art your not an artist just someone that can write a prompt
It won't come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, but I'm not a fan of AI. This, however, was a really interesting read because when I saw those filters, I too wondered about it, as I do know that open AI has tried to take the tiniest step back from openly stealing from certain artists, and I wondered what made Studio Ghibli different in that regard. I wonder if part of the reason why they feel comfortable enough to do this is because Studio Ghibli isn't as openly litigious about artwork as another studio, say Disney for example. I think it is really vile and nasty though, because you're still stealing from artists, you're just stealing from more of them at one time. Especially when Studio Ghibli's creator has been so openly against AI, I just don't understand why, from a moral perspective you would feel you have any right to do it. answering my own question though, I know that a lot of people who tend to use the artistic AIs and all that are not people who care about artistic integrity, or the people who respect the amount of work that art takes to make.
I have always loved how sassy Miyazaki is and his response to this is exactly what I would’ve expected of him. On a more serious note I really hope Ghibli as a whole pursues legal action if its possible because the AI generated art mimicking Miyazaki’s style is horrible. There has to be some form of copyright that will be able to hold these companies accountable for the things their AI creates. Even then if they don’t exist, some politician better get writing to figure out what needs to be done to control the rampant use of AI. Even with the argument that the creators can’t “control” what the AI creates, that is honestly irrelevant to me. A parent is legally and fiscally responsible for anything their child does until their 18, why should AI be any different? Open AI should be legally and fiscally responsible for anything their AI creates that voids any sort of copyright laws especially for the creation of art. AI art lacks the soul human made art has.
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