AI seizes the Ghibli style, and it will be enraged Miyazaki
“It is an insult to life itself,” said the master of animation in 2016.
For a few days, images taking up the emblematic style of Ghibli flourish on social networks. Cult scenes, iconic photographs or memes are reproduced in the sauce of the famous Japanese animation studio. And it’s as sad as they are worrying.
Where do these visuals come from? Of the latest version ofOPENAIthe American artificial intelligence company behind Chatgptwhich offers in GPT -4O Son “most advanced image generator to date“. You dreamed of seeing your favorite memes or The Lord Rings of Peter Jackson Ghibli way? This is what it gives:
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1. Ghibli style studio memespic.twitter.com/e38mbnpnqh
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On X (formerly Twitter), Sam Altman, the CEO of Openai, jubiless and also participates in the trend. But the phenomenon has become so viral that the company has already suspended GPT-4O for free accounts. It must be said that the looting of the style of the famous studio to whom we owe My neighbor Totoro,, Princess Mononoké Or Chihiro’s journey Asking serious questions, in terms of intellectual property but also ethics.
What thinks Hayao Miyazakithe co-founder of Ghibli, of all this? A 2016 video resurfaced, and it gives us a fairly precise idea of the opinion of the animation master.
Assistant to a demo showing creatures moving like zombies, whose movement has been generated by an artificial intelligence, Miyazaki first protests by evoking one of his friends who suffer from disability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngz0k3lwkrc
“”When I think of him, I can’t look at this thing and find it interesting. What created it has no idea what pain is. I am deeply disgusted. I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work. I sincerely think that it is an insult to life itself“.
The dumbfounded programmers try to justify themselves against Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki, also present. Then one two recognizes that their goal is to create a machine “who can draw as humans do“. The video ends with his words as Miyazaki:”I think we are approaching the end of time. We men lose faith in ourselves“.
