A video from 2016 of Studio Ghibli’s legendary director Hayao Miyazaki lashing out during an AI demonstration from staff recently went viral amid looming debate about copyright and artificial intelligence (AI), particularly ChatGPT.
“I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself,” he said in the video.
The trend “is especially insidious and malicious because of how outspokenly scathing Miyazaki has been toward the tech,“ wrote artist and illustrator Jayd “Chira” Ait-Kaci on Bluesky, adding that it is always about contempt for artists, every time.
