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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I hate this shit. I hate that we've devalued learning how to do new things and being terrible at stuff but doing it anyway for the joy of it. I hate how we need things NOW no matter how crap that makes the final product. Just draw things yourself, it's way more fun even if you're shit at it. It'd rather have 10,000 MS paint doodles than some glossy abomination that only looks OK if you don't look at it too long. I'd rather watch someone slowly improve at something rather than just giving up and having the plagiarism machine do it for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I understand both sides tbh...

Like, sure people some artists will feel like their actual talent is being infringed, and in cases of those idiots calling themselves "AI Artists", I agree.

But also, I got an already existing picture of me and my fiancé in a different art style and we both looked cute, also did the picture of my cat. If I wanted a personalized quality cartoon of ourselves it would've cost me at least $150, so for a fun, already existing pic of ourselves I'm ok with it,specially if it's to keep to myself or maybe posting in a "hey check this out lol" way, I'm not saying I'm an artist or claiming is original content.

If I wanted a REALLY special picture made to my specifications by an actual artist, of course it would be worth it since I'd ask them to do a "custom" scene and such (that's the creativity part IMO), but just "translating" an already existing picture, I think is ok as long as you don't claim you're the artist or try and get credit for it either.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly I think whatever this Ghibli trend is about, it's just good advertisting for the real Studio Ghibli.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Ghibli

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 days ago (3 children)

blog post on why this behavior sucks: https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Here's another good read: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's a good read, but I'm not sure if it's a good take. This seems very emotionally-driven and not really logical. Someone could make low quality Ghibli style images by hand in large quantities. Is that just as bad?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Someone could make low quality Ghibli style images by hand in large quantities. Is that just as bad?

Evidently they didn't do it, though, so AI does fundamentally change the issue. AI is both cheaper and faster than human content creators once your model is trained (the energy use might be an externalized cost, though) and so far it is also a lot harder to sue.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

I had my brother do this to me yesterday. My hate for those vampires grow more and more everyday.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

AI starts looking more like a fashion industry than a technology product, the trends are repeating. Last time style transfer was popular was 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't get it. :(

[–] [email protected] 108 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The comic's creator, whose OC is on the left, cares about art and finds the AI generated Ghibli fakes to be soul-less and a net negative to the world. It makes him want to kill himself.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Kill himself, but also killing the person who used the soulless machine to ape that iconic art style.

Hes killing them through himself. He wants to exact both vengeance and to cease to be at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Which is really reprehensible, because if you're going to kill someone, you need to look them in the eye as you dart past the swing of their knife and plunge your own into their chest behind the truck stop where my greyhound was refueling on that rainy night in 1991