What is the GHibli studio meters tells us about the future of art and humanity

In today’s episode of DecoderWe are talking about artificial intelligence, art and controversial collision between the two – a discussion, to be honest, is absolute chaos. If you are on the Internet last week, you undoubtedly know that the controversy was only First degree kicked by Gibli Memat Studio – Pictures of jamming Japanese films style. These photos, supported by the new Openai photo generator, are located everywhere; Samenai CEO of Openai publishes some examples on his personal account X. They have already stark a stark rift between artificial intelligence enhancement and critics.

Brian Merchant, a good friend freedom And author of the newsletter and the book Bloodbooks One of the best analyzes of the GHibli direction last week. Therefore, I called for the presentation to discuss this particular situation and also to help me know AI on a larger scale with his continued collision with legal frameworks such as copyright.

Mechant tends to agree more than we differ when it comes to the technology industry. So I made my best to take the other side here and push these ideas as much as possible. Technology and art have always been in a dance with each other; This is part of the founding spirit of freedom. So I think it is important to put artificial intelligence in this context – not at least because we can see the clear joy of ordinary people to use some of these tools to express themselves in ways they may not be able to do so.

But there is an expression of yourself, then there is a decrease in the slope of artificial intelligence Mystery and My neighbor Totoro In a way that reduces value and explicit theft of actual human artists. Add on the Trump Administration Road He jumped on the direction by “Jaibli -Gang” a deportation imageAnd it is not difficult to see why many people see this tool as completely strange and degrading. Or “insult to the same life,” said the founder of Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki once about an experimental show of artificial intelligence he witnessed in 2016.

So you will hear a merchant and I really go back and forth, and search for what all this means – for art and artists, and for the creative rules that have long moved from the world of material scarcity to one of the unlimited digital supply. More importantly, we have spent a lot of time talking about how we feel the use of these tools at all when they may pose very real threats to people’s livelihoods and a continuous climate crisis.

I will warn you: There are no easy answers here, and I do not think Brian and have reached one conclusion. I don’t even think we wanted to. But I believe that this conversation helped me think more clearly in how to think of artificial intelligence and art. Let me know what your opinion is.

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