Brian Merchant
OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman even made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to the industry's biggest boosters that they have won—that they're free to use, appropriate, and commoditize art however they see fit.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
Brian Merchant
I realize that language is strong, and for a long time I have been skeptical of this notion that 'AI bros hate artists' or such—but seeing the response to this critique, which on the other site really actually has too often been literally 'Fuck Miyazaki', what other conclusion are we to come to?
Brian Merchant
Here's how one artist, Reid Southen, told me he feels about the AI Studio Ghibli trend:
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Margret Kuarell
@brianmerchant as an former translator and writer in different fields ... AI bros don't hate artists, they hat people how like their professions. they hate to pay for it or the need to explain, what they actually want to have made... and since most people never even noticed some jobs getting replaced until they started with artists, AI bros already got their way
Sharp Leaves
@brianmerchant The White House account is sharing fake-ghibli slop memes of crying migrants deported.
We need to turn this on them.
AI slop is created by the talentless and enjoyed by the stupid. Some smug nerd thinks he's pwning an artist because instead of learning a human skill, he created garbage for nazis and Facebook uncles?
Don't let them act like they're being snide, make them own their embarrassing taste in slop. This is the Right's art, their true concept of beauty. Laugh at them
Daniel Marks
@brianmerchant Everything is just going to become a Xerox copy of a copy of a copy of a copy until everything is an unrecognizable gray blob. And because we will have lost the ability to distinguish any features, the gray blob will be the product.
Hakan Bayındır
@brianmerchant This is many things at once. First of all, this is disrespectful on so many levels. Also it shows another shift.
Before, we could say that these people played dirty. But this thing became ugly. A dark, off-putting type of ugly. It makes my stomach churn. I'm ashamed of being member of the same species with these people.
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