And fuck the ghibli AI trend

I think drew gooden's video on AI has framed my qualms with AI art really well as well so I suggest anyone interested to check it out. 

I heavily agree that art is meant to be difficult and that the beauty of art is that you are witnessing something made from years and years of a the artist's hardwork, even if the piece itself didn't take them long the foundation is however long the artist has been practicing their craft. People writing a prompt into a AI generator is in no parts difficult, in no parts as difficult as anything that took the effort art takes is.

And even if it were difficult in the way creating a painting yourself is, you lose so much of the purpose and intent that comes with real art because when someone is creating something themselves, they have to consider the little things. Every bit whether consciously made in a certain way or not is their creation, their creative decision.

To see the art of an artist who has said that AI art is an insult to life itself be turned into a fucking AI filter has had me seething these past few days. Hayao Miyazaki has historically explored the capacity of human development and pursuit of innovation/technology to be destructive (eg. in the floating castle in the sky and how the robots would be threatening if in the hands of humanity) and it feels blatantly ironic to witness something like this happen to the ghibli artstyle and for it to become a trend of all things. 

To turn the artstyle of very films that are so heavily steeped in the beauty of nature and hand-created, purposeful art into AI slop is honestly disheartening. 

And it honestly feels more cruel when I consider the fact that in my own home country AI has taken over like rapid fire, it felt like every other advertisement I saw for a good period of time was AI generated, and I distinctly remember the streets litered with the AI generated art being used to promote the presidential campaign here, and every single time something happens like this it only reminds me even more that this is the path "art" is heading towards. 

I can see many people who agree that the ghibli AI trend is dumb, but I feel like I see so much more people so happy to be on board with it and partake (or with AI art in general), and for that I've felt it necessary to let out the disappointment that's been bubbling up in me recently. Honestly just wrote this to yap about this somewhere.