I was just thinking about Miyazaki and the stupid AI Ghibli thing and I think what is so frustrating about something that seems, in the face, harmless, is that it risks creating new and diminished definitions for what style and vision are
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For example, Ghibli isn’t large eyes and small noses, it’s Miyazaki’s obsession with flying machines, it’s his totally unique creatures inspired in part by his love of drawing blobby things and also by blending creatures of myth and legend from different cultures
And by missing what makes it actually beloved, you mistake pure technique for style, pure visual cues for vision. And if that’s all style and vision are, of course a machine can achieve them.
But a machine can’t spend a childhood drawing planes and flying contraptions because they’re obsessed with them, and later bring that obsession to their work. That’s human vision, and a machine can never, ever duplicate that
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