blog post on why this behavior sucks: https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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It's a good read, but I'm not sure if it's a good take. This seems very emotionally-driven and not really logical. Someone could make low quality Ghibli style images by hand in large quantities. Is that just as bad?
Someone could make low quality Ghibli style images by hand in large quantities. Is that just as bad?
Evidently they didn't do it, though, so AI does fundamentally change the issue. AI is both cheaper and faster than human content creators once your model is trained (the energy use might be an externalized cost, though) and so far it is also a lot harder to sue.
Great read
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I had my brother do this to me yesterday. My hate for those vampires grow more and more everyday.
Honestly I think whatever this Ghibli trend is about, it's just good advertisting for the real Studio Ghibli.
Ghibli
God forbid someone do something harmless that brings them an iota of joy.
From the environmental impact, to the social impact to the personal impact absolutely no part of it is harmless.
"Personal impact" yeah bro me turning a picture of my cat into an anime style is literally ruining someone's life.
Stop being so dramatic.
Stealing another artists work when they have very loudly and publicly stated they do not support you stealing their work does have a personal impact.
You just don't see artists as people.
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The environmental impact argument doesn't really work anymore now that you can produce AI generated images on a standard gaming PC. Also I'm not sure what you mean by "personal impact". I can understand "social impact" but if the person generated the image themselves, I assume they would enjoy it and not have a negative personal impact from it.
The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years, and wasting power on stealing art is still wasting power even if you reduce it down to just running a local model on your gaming pc, which is a tiny fraction of users.
The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way. In this case the artist has made it incredibly clear that ai is a cancer on society and an affront to human life. I think that would affect a normal person that has any shame or empathy.
The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years
That's a good argument for stopping the training of AI models, but the models we have are here to stay.
The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way.
Maybe they shouldn't have publicly released their art to the world if they didn't want people or machines to make things similar to it. Copying is not theft, I think Nina Paley is right about that.
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God forbid somebody thinks it's cringe and makes a joke about it.
I mean, yeah? "You like a thing I don't, reeeeeeee kys" is proper reddit/4chan mentality and just childish, let people enjoy things.
let people enjoy things.
Thanks, I'm enjoying this picture a lot.
Got em.
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I don't get it. :(
The comic's creator, whose OC is on the left, cares about art and finds the AI generated Ghibli fakes to be soul-less and a net negative to the world. It makes him want to kill himself.
Kill himself, but also killing the person who used the soulless machine to ape that iconic art style.
Hes killing them through himself. He wants to exact both vengeance and to cease to be at the same time.
Which is really reprehensible, because if you're going to kill someone, you need to look them in the eye as you dart past the swing of their knife and plunge your own into their chest behind the truck stop where my greyhound was refueling on that rainy night in 1991
Ah yes, murder-suicide is a perfectly reasonable response to your friend doing something artistic that you disagree with.
Is exaggeration for humour something you're unaware of?
Humor is a kind of art and he doesn't understand art.
There's no humour here.
Look closer at the third panel.
A man's friend has generated a cute image that she finds amusing. In response, the man has decided to kill her and also himself.
Woo, hilarious.
Whatβs the artistic part in βupload photo to AI generator and write prompt βturn this into ghibli-styleββ?
The humour in the comic isnβt mine, but I donβt consider using an AI slop machine as artistic.
Write a prompt? There's probably a button...
What's the artistic part in "taping a banana to the wall?"
Art is in the eye of the beholder, you don't get to declare what is and is not art for everyone else.
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I don't know if you're familiar with hyperbole
Putting a photo through an AI photo filter is not artistic. Literally a toddler drawing with a crayon is infinitely more artistic.
"Doing something artistic", as if there's anything artistic about shoving a likely lovingly taken picture into one of these slop machines.
Look up "hyperbole"
Yea. Just realized he's about to off both of them.
It's beautiful really
AI starts looking more like a fashion industry than a technology product, the trends are repeating. Last time style transfer was popular was 10 years ago.
Imagine caring more about protecting corporate copyright than bonding time with your very own life partner π€‘
Imagine thinking most people care about corporate copyright and that there is nothing else objectionable about it
If youβre forcing such ridiculous binary choices the problem is you.
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Is he back to making comics for buzzfeed?
His redemption arc has been pretty good
It's so much fun to block butthurt artists that are sad they aren't special anymore
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