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Hayao Miyazaki on "AI" image generation

2025-03-27 23:29:15.984981+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Hayao Miyazaki, 2016, on being shown some "AI" image generation demos translation transcription further transcribed by me:

Every morning ... not recent days, but I see my friend who has a disability.

It's so hard for him just to do a high five, his arm with stiff muscle reaching out to my hand.

Now, thinking of him, I can't watch this stuff and find it interesting.

Whoever creates this stuff has no idea of 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.

After one of the presenters says "We want to build a machine that can draw pictures like humans do.", Miyazaki replies:

I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.

Anyway, just a cultural touchpoint to contemplate as using OpenAI's new image generator to create images of one's-self in the style of Studio Ghibli is being used by Sam Altman to distract us from OpenAI's money problems.

(Earlier today)

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