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Only Hayao Miyazaki Should Be Allowed to Turn People Into Pigs
The newest wave of AI-generated art goes against everything the filmmaker and Studio Ghibli stand for. Not that that’s stopping anyone.
And loving Miyazaki means appreciating the detailed work of the team of Japanese animators hand-drawing the vast majority of what viewers see in films like My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle. Being pro-labor and pro-AI is incompatible, as AI devalues the work that actual workers do, making them less valuable to the market and easier to underpay going forward. The speed at which the OpenAI Ghibli images are flying around suggests that the fad may burn out sooner than later — the accelerationist tendencies are inherent to the form.
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