What does the creator of Studio Ghibli think about the subject?

In recent days, social networks have been taken by images made by artificial intelligence recreating photos based on Studio Ghibli’s animated style, renowned Japanese studio responsible for productions such as “The Travel of Chihiro” (2001), “The Boy and the Heron” (2023), “My friend Totoro” (1988) and much more.

With the popularization of practice, besides recreating personal photos in animated format, many netizens also took the opportunity to recreate images of their favorite artists, or even some famous memes. Check it out!

In addition to viralizing on the web, the situation also generated a big question in the fans: after all, what Hayao Miyazakifounder of Studio Ghibli, do you think about practice?

What Hayao Miyazaki thinks about the Studio Ghibli style photos?

So far, both Miyazaki How much Studio Ghibli has not yet officially commented on the matter. However, a speech of Hayaosaid in 2016, about using chatgPT can give us an idea of ​​its positioning.

During the documentary “Never-Anding Man: Hayao Miyazaki”, produced by NHK, the filmmaker is presented to an artificial intelligence animation where you can see a figure similar to a zombie making grotesque movements, and expresses AI use aversion in artistic creation.

“I am absolutely bothered. If you really want to create repulsive things, you can continue. But I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work. I feel strongly that this is an insult to life itself.” Hayao Miyazaki said about the image generated by AI.

Also, in production, Miyazaki It still says that this kind of technology is a demonstration that humans “are losing faith in themselves,” and makes him feel like he’s “close to the end of time.”

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