Animation : Hayao Miyazaki on AI by Geoff Hall

It's like going from experts of a craft to a mass production. I wouldn't say it's an "insult to life itself" but it does make the human element another step removed from the craft. Subtlties and natural imperfections are lost or awkward.

AI is all about the obliteration of truth and we are most certainly in ‘the end of days’. You are witnessing the perversion of all things.

The AI bubble will burst. It is going to get far too expensive. Has already started. Most people are looking at AI one dimensionally and NOT looking at the possibilities and responsibilities.

One should ask, how can I use AI in my process to make it more efficient and fun, and not how do I use AI to do my process. The problem is that the slop out there are from people using AI to solely replace the process.

There is nothing purely good or bad in this world. It is the intent behind the usage. Water is good for you and can be dangerous, Knives can be useful but also deadly depending on the usage and intent. A lion is more dangerous than a car, but a car poses more of a danger to you. When you look at lion attacks on human's vs car crash fatalities, cars have killed more people. That is because when we see a lion, we stay far, we drive in caged cars, or they are behind thick glass.

We implement safety measures for the things we deem dangerous, so that they pose less of a threat. AI is no different. We have to recognize it is a part of our society, always was going to be, from the second we watched Star Trek and Star Wars and were fascinated, our brains have been attracted to the idea.

We have to as artists and filmmakers, actually join the conversation and say here are acceptable uses of AI and here are unacceptable uses of it and make those best practices, so we stay out of the danger zone. I love that lawsuits are happening to prevent blatant copyright infringement, I am happy there are laws stating that no one can copyright AI generated content. The fact that making money in this professional is heavily anchored on copyright ownership, will AI a hard choice for commercial use. It will be restricted in how it is used.

When Ai first came out and before it was clear how bad it was on so many levels, I used it to do some Ai concept art and also paid a human artist to do concept art of the same characters. The Ai merely recycled the patterns and input it had been trained on to spit out the art equivalent of 1+1=2. Okay, but nothing special. The human artist? She brought her own creativity to the project and created exponentially better concept art. These were original, unique, gloriously creative designs. They felt genuinely alive while the ai product felt hollow and lifeless. I truly cannot stress how much this experiment showed what we stand to lose when we fail to honour and employ human artists at the concept art stage. Concept artists do not just take a prompt and spot out a product. They leverage their own skills, experiences, expertise and creativity to amplify and enhance a writer’s creativity to create something far greater than a writer prompting a machine ever could. Just like a good writer’s room often produces an exponentially better story than one writer.

If we want people to buy anything creative we make I think we need to honour every creative who contributes. And believe in the humanity of storytelling in a way that demands ai not be tolerated.

The more I learn of ai, the more I feel Miyazaki was very right in his comments on Ai.