I am waiting on Miyazaki to come out of retirement to make a movie about bashing AIs. If he can't, I will think of something. He is my inspiration of why I get into animation... seeing this done to him is really making me really angry.
you work your whole life to pass something good to the next generation, you succeeded, only to have your art style, animation stolen by machines and undermine every message you have ever tried to pass on. so. infuriating. And that white house pic even worse.
AI is mostly attractive to CEOs who have allergy on working with real humans. They don't care about quality or art, they just don't want to work with people.
If that makes you smile, a morning economic programme on the radio did mention today this mess. The conclusion was that people may want to use this because they like the style, but they hurt the artists they like so much.
"This feature has become very popular with people who have no imagination" 🎯🎯🎯
We are trained by consumerism to passively accept stuff entirely superficially, without any need to connect with who made it, where it came from, or what effort went into it.
But you see, their copyright is very real because otherwise they won't make money and everyone else's can be ignored because it gets in the way of making them money
So … Chat GPT recognizes they are violating copyright … so they reserve the copyright violating function to paying customers … proving that they are hoping to profit off their plagiarism machine …
P.S. I have a migraine and I have zero interest in debating people's "takes" on why they should be allowed to use machine translation. I don't care. You don't need my permission to use it, so stop trying to justify yourselves at me.
Yeah I didn't even know how to start with the "relying entirely on AI translation is also shitty behaviour btw" side of things. I'm a J/E translator. Machine translation is awful and often wrong, too.
I highly recommend reading it if you can! The original English version is much more colourful and delightfully worded than the machine translation of the Japanese translation. XD
I think daily translation of the Google Translate variety might be one of the few good uses for AI. Not for books or articles, but for things like an immigrant family trying to translate a newsletter from their kid’s teacher into their own language.
if it leads to misunderstandings and people being wrong, then what is the purpose of machine translations? It's annoying at best and dangerous at worst.
Human translators exist. We translate things properly. Machine translation is created entirely on the backs of our labour, just like GenAI art, and it would not exist without us. And it is a shitty imitation that regularly gets things very, very wrong. It's just as bad as using ChatGPT.
I feel like there's a big difference between an individual needing to quickly translate something vs. businesses using it. This being said, translators have been around forever, there's probably a moral way to do this without the theft, too
On the other hand, machine translation is the only way for most people to access most foreign-language text and communicate across language barriers, since the alternatives ("learn all languages" and "pay a translator every time you want to read sth in another language") are both utterly impractical
Came here to say the same thing. Thank you for posting that.
I wish japanese articles were this brutal and honest. Unfortunately society LOVES AI here and embraces it too much. It grosses me out every day.
You're welcome! I love it too. The whole article uses the English language a *lot* more delightfully than the machine-translated version of the Japanese, so it's worth reading it all!
Also most people looking at the Japanese version are not realising that the article there is split over three pages. So they're only reading a third of the article. The English version is all on a single page.
We already had a Disney Pixar filter running around a few months ago and Disney did nothing. Seems like someone need to sneak into OpenAI roster and create a Nintendo Filtre. Than we will have some legal dispute.
For all I care to understand, these people using Ghibli's art style to make AI generative crap via ChatGPT look like they are intentionally bastardizing Studio Ghibli's reputation, as well as Miyazaki's.
It is absolutely impossible to win an argument against an AI "art" bro. They can't even remotely understand how inspiration works! They think an AI parroting someone else's work counts as "inspiration".
The Japanese have a very different view on creative works and ownership than North America. It’s not surprising that once they come to understand what’s actually going on, they hate it.
Not only that but the fact that they have a better understanding of American politics than our politicians in power, I mean Armstrong was right when America is diseased and rotten to the core. Especially now.
Why would anyone wish for more attacks against people who have no imagination?
It's perfectly fine to have not imagination (whatever that exactly means, because it's probably not meant literally), the lack of imagination is not something we should hold against people.
And yes I think the plagiarism machines are bad, of course they are, and their fans are terrible people.
That should make it easier to attack them without soooo much splash damage against people who have done nothing wrong.
"super intelligence"
"curing cancer"
MuH gENeRatEd tExTs aNd AnImE tiDdiEs WiLl cUrE cAncEr.
I'm cringing so fucking hard about all the people on earth rn who fall for this bullshit and think these dudes are literal tech saints leading humanity into utopia.
The worst is: "IT IS A PROOF OF THEIR CRIME."
Anyone may argue about GPT shadiness since it is done under the wraps, but this is literally exclaming "Look I did it. I am better than Ghibli. I am advocating piracy and it is a crime."
“Not available in the free version due to copyright laws, but available in the paid version.”
All that tells me is that they are willing to break laws if they get paid for it. And that it is still illegal to some degree!
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We are trained by consumerism to passively accept stuff entirely superficially, without any need to connect with who made it, where it came from, or what effort went into it.
I'm speaking about making art obviously.
The Japanese tell it as it is LMAO 🇯🇵 ❤️
Infringement doesn't become legal just because someone paid you to do it.
search engines renewed, wows.
much wow such amaze.
https://slate.com/life/2025/03/studio-ghibli-style-ai-chatgpt-openai-generator-prompt-hayao-miyazaki.html
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Which is:
Jenny G. Zhang, Senior Editor for Slate Magazine.
Also, thank you for linking the actual article... hopefully I remember to read it later.
I highly recommend reading it if you can! The original English version is much more colourful and delightfully worded than the machine translation of the Japanese translation. XD
I like to think, even if the machine were perfect at a thing, what gets lost? I think we'll always want human translations for books, poetry, etc.
But for plain communicating it's amazing.
I'm all against AI art/text/etc., but the enemy is Generative Ai, not every Machine Learning program or things labeled "AI" older then then Gen-AI
I wish japanese articles were this brutal and honest. Unfortunately society LOVES AI here and embraces it too much. It grosses me out every day.
I agree with everything said, I'm just shocked it got put into an article.
He said that in response to all those people using ChatGPT to create AI images using the Ghibli art style.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/studio-ghibli-memes-openai-chatgpt/682235/
They’re already stealing copyright imagery and art, why do they suddenly care about “copyright” when it involves making a profit?
I know WHY, but their reasoning is idiotic.
The excuse of having copyrighted material is them trying to justify why you need to pay for the feature. Otherwise they wouldn't care.
I want every single news article to be this regardless of writer, platform, or topic.
Accurate? Also yes.
Huh.
It's perfectly fine to have not imagination (whatever that exactly means, because it's probably not meant literally), the lack of imagination is not something we should hold against people.
That should make it easier to attack them without soooo much splash damage against people who have done nothing wrong.
"curing cancer"
MuH gENeRatEd tExTs aNd AnImE tiDdiEs WiLl cUrE cAncEr.
I'm cringing so fucking hard about all the people on earth rn who fall for this bullshit and think these dudes are literal tech saints leading humanity into utopia.
Anyone may argue about GPT shadiness since it is done under the wraps, but this is literally exclaming "Look I did it. I am better than Ghibli. I am advocating piracy and it is a crime."
All that tells me is that they are willing to break laws if they get paid for it. And that it is still illegal to some degree!