The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki

The Ghibli AI trend is a perfect microcosm:

1. The raw content (images) is easily reproducible and has minimal intrinsic value


2. The context (who shares it, how it's framed, which platforms amplify it) creates the actual economic and social value


3. The creators of the original style (Studio Ghibli) receive some value through "increased interest" while platfo

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There is something unspoken lurking in the background of the most impassioned critiques of generative AI. Between the cries of plagiarism and unoriginal lazy mimicry is the fact that there is almost nothing original or unique about culture now in the first place. Putting aside the dangerous and ahistorical simplification of creativity as originalit... See more

she doesn’t identify as firmly anti-AI and can’t say artificial intelligence will never make its way into her artwork. AI-generated images as they currently stand, however, don’t impress her.

“They all kind of look greasy to me, like they’ve been dipped in oil,” she said. “People will get tired of seeing shiny images.”