The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki

One bitter irony of the faux-Ghibli meme is that Miyazaki is an avowed hater of A.I. technology. In an infamous clip, from 2016, he described an automated animation tool as “an insult to life itself.” That Miyazaki’s lifework is now grist for the generative-A.I. mill might be not only an insult but a copyright infringement. OpenAI argues that copyi... See more

The use of Ghibli-esque anime in the OpenAI demo was intentional; “we put a lot of thought into the initial examples we show when we introduce new technology,”