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That should be the headline. Assuming it was done without consent, which lets face it, it most likely was.

Edit: It came to my attention that Japan has a more open stance to AI training on copyright materials. It does however say that

Accordingly, the focus is that ingestion of copyrighted material is prohibited if the intention is to output products that can be perceived as creative expressions of copyrighted works, including mimicking the style of specific creators.

Not a laywer but all these memes created by the ChatGPT look like creative expressions that mimic the style.

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Like all other AI and all the copyright in the world. Shareholders are ok with. Copyright for me, not for you. Pirates were the bad guys. These are the saviours we deserve.

Seems this is legal now. Keep this in mind, when the next video game decompilation project comes along because that's also machine-generated material based on copyrighted released media. That must be equally as legal now.

Everything was. Is ...

Life is hard when you dreamed of being a chèf but got popular with animation.

Replacing amazing creative humans with bland AI generated content is not a good use of AI.

I don't know about you, but I don't absolutely require job for my life. I do require nutrients and shelter though...

The bigger problem here is the loss of jobs and we are talking about a huge loss of employment that will affect economies really hard.

I would say that's a tangential problem. Because, you know, in theory...

But the deeper problem is ultimately in expertise as a learned skill developed over time and through practice. If you're de-skilling work, you're dismantling the tools by which we train the next generation of artists and production crews. If we were just replacing humans with machines for some route manual labor (like Pixar replaced Disney's old hand drawn animations with a newer CGI look), the result would be a new style and perhaps less tendentious from route reproductions.

But we're gutting the whole process of development which means you're losing the pool of skilled professionals who know how to create CGI (or even flip-book style 60s animation) from first principles. That means sacrificing whole fields of specialized expertise for... what? This?

Not an AI problem though. Perhaps AI will help some people understand that there are some big ass problems in our society.

i hate how brainwashed westerners are. will go on a diatribe about the importance of free speech and then rabidly defend copyright as if it isn’t directly contrary to the idea of freedom of information, all in the same breath.

inb4 that’s a description of every reply to this comment.

Tell me you've never seen a Studio Ghibli movie without telling me you've never seen a single Studio Ghibli movie. Literally every one of them contains some "advancing technology isn't necessarily a good thing and the old ways have value" message. If AI were personified in one of their movies, it'd be a oozing black oil demon monstrosity spitting soot into the air.

It'd be like Banksy doing advertisement for Nestle. It's just so contrary to the message they put out.

Bigoted against what?? A machine? The money grubbing assholes who are using those machines to profit on other people's work without giving them a dime in compensation? Who the hell are you defending here?

Studio Ghibli and their artists put in millions of hours collectively to create works if absolute art. Sam Altman just borrowed millions of dollars to rip them off.

I don't think you have a good handle on what mathematicians do.

Nah AI is just garbo in general. Any productivity it gives has a noticible drop in quality and capabilities that result in net loss.

The article isn't about the new animation but about how the old clip has resurfaced and is retreading its origin and how it relates to recent events.

Now coming back to Miyazaki’s thoughts on AI, a widely shared video from 2016 shows the legendary animator reacting with disgust to an AI-generated animation demo.

The animation in the clip reminded him about his friend's disability and how the creators of the animation didn't regard ableism while making it. Later in the clip, one of the creators had expressed that they would like to create a machine that could "draw pictures as humans do" and Miyazaki was depicted as displeased after this statement.

The article doesn't go into if there were any comments from Miyazaki on the Ghibli-style image.