[brabel]

You should see the context in which he said that. It was 2016. It was no ChatGPT he was talking about. It was some truly bizarre art that was going on back then, like a sort of humanoid form trying to learn how to walk without being given instructions... it would do disturbing things like us its head as if it was a limb and move in completely unnatural ways... that's what he, and most who watch that video, found so disturbing. But of course, taking things out of context and using a powerful sentence as if it were referring to something entirely different to make your own point is more fun.

[exdeejay_]

For more context to whoever is interested, the dialogue following the quote goes like this:

  Studio Ghibli producer, Suzuki: "So, what is your goal?"
  ML Developer: "Well, we would like to build a machine that can draw pictures like humans do."
    <jump cut>
   Miyazaki VO: "I feel like we are nearing to the end of times."
                "We humans are losing faith in ourselves."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

Of course, the form of AI has changed over the years, but the claim that this quote could be tied to Miyazaki's general view on having machines create art is not totally baseless.

[petralithic]

Genetic programming. It's actually quite an interesting method of creating programs, certainly not like LLMs but cool nonetheless.

[bee_rider]

Lots of quotes are out of context, it’s a great like with the context stripped from it.

[myhf]

Do you think that the more refined version is somehow less of an insult to life itself? It wasn't a statement about how refined the art style is. It's about the meaning and intentionality that goes into deliberate communication, and how tools designed specifically to skip over the decision making and deliberation are removing the most important part of the result.

Look at all the AI-written and AI-illustrated articles being published this year. Look at how smooth the image slop is. Look at how fluent the text slop is. Higher quality slop doesn't change the fact that nobody could be bothered to write the thing, and nobody can be bothered to read it.

[brabel]

Watch the video someone else linked... it has nothing to do with textual AI. It's about a grotesque digital creature. It reminded the artist of a disabled person, which felt insulting to him. You can have your opinion on the topic but don't hijack someone else's opinion on an entirely different topic.

[antegamisou]

> It was no ChatGPT he was talking about

As if it's in any way less horrifying having the entire Internet infested with AI slop.

[TeMPOraL]

If GP was an LLM, we'd say they hallucinated this argument.

Wish some of the AI detectors realized when they're doing a worse job reasoning than the LLMs they criticize.