No, not all. Not callous or dismissive, just wrong :)

Even a superficial reading of that clip makes it clear he wasn’t just focused on this one walk-cycle but representation of human pain in general, since he brought up the friend with the disability. Beyond that, we’re gonna believe what we want to

I get that our relationship with the art we interact with is sacrosanct. I think trends like these fall out of that ambit simply because of their economic and environmental costs and implications. What it adds to life is too petty for what it costs and will continue to cost for a long time

I mean, you’re entitled to your opinion on Ai and this trend. I’m merely questioning you saying everyone’s interpretation of that clip is wrong and that this is about gatekeeping Ghibli somehow

You’re also disregarding his history when you say he was referring to the zombie. He’s complained about cel animation because it leads to “pictures with little information” and compromise in human expression. With context, it’s clear he’s referring to AI and not this specific application of it

You’re very hung up on the zombie ha. Miyazaki goes on to say he’ll never use this technology in his work. Do you think he meant the specific zombie walk-cycle? In his films about nature, love, war, and grief, and ZERO zombies? Did he reallly need to clarify no zombies walking with their heads, pls?

Idk licensing artwork, paying artists and studios before using their signature styles and work to turn a profit for yourself seems like a fair and obvious place to start

That’s probably because it was not the zombie. It was the idea of a machine built to recreate human experiences and emotions. That machine, that tech, is “an insult to life itself,” not the specific zombie walking using its head.

I feel that of all the contradictions we have to hold in our minds, this one’s fairly easy to call out and resolve

Yeah but that was after. What made him relate the story of a man who can’t even greet a friend because of his painful disability? This specific zombie walk-cycle, or a machine that can’t understand emotions creating something that diminishes the human experience of pain? It’s obvious, no?

We know why. After Miyazaki responded, they said this was just an experiment, presumably to show the potential of this tech that they hoped could one day “draw pictures like humans do” and that they didn’t intend to do anything with this animation specifically. And Miyazaki said, “I understand.”

Another bit that you’ve left out of this fun thread is about AI’s environmental impact and how so much of Miyazaki’s works is about the destruction of ecosystems caused by humans. Pretty safe to say he probably doesn’t approve

Fun fact but Ghibli is not actually in the business of making zombie video games so Miyazaki might have had the foresight to not be limiting his views to that zombie-walk specifically. Also, the doc that clip is from continues with Miyazaki talking about how humans are losing faith in themselves

He was shown that zombie video, to which he replied with the story about his friend who has trouble even lifting his hand for a high-five, and how AI doesn’t understand pain. He said others can go ahead but that he “would never wish to incorporate this tech into his work at all.”