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Erik Schuessler
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time magazine’s person of the year 2006

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In the documentary The One Who Never Ends, Miyazaki continues his thoughts on AI art with statements nearly as apocalyptic as those in Nausicaä. “I feel like we are nearing to the end of the times,” he says. “We humans are losing faith in ourselves.” No longer seeing art as work, as something worth putting effort into, a vast audience now has no faith that it can create anything of its own. Instead, this audience is more than happy to shove the movies it loves—movies currently returning to the big screen as animation’s gold standard—into the meat grinder, for no other reason than because it’s easy to do so. If the villains in Ghibli movies were that vacant, the films would never have become classics in the first place.
March 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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If you consider, as Gareth Watkins laid out so wonderfully last month, that AI, which is "embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit" and as a result is "the new aesthetics of fascism", Altman and OpenAI's singling out of Studio Ghibli starts to make more sense. Especially when figures like Altman are being increasingly described as "technofascists". This isn't another laugh, another coy attempt at circumventing someone's rights to their creations; the way this has been pitched and sold is a direct attack, a flex revelling in the fact creators have so far proven largely powerless to stop these vultures from looting the history of human creation wholesale. So yeah, it sucks! Which is why people need to stop sharing that shit. If you accidentally fell into it via a chat or a message from a friend or whatever, and made an image because you thought it was cute, cut it out. If you're trying to dunk on the practice by linking to articles or examples that showcase the work, inadvertently flooding people's timelines with examples of this ghoulish, stolen work, stop. Nobody wants to see that shit. Nobody needs to see it.
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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played gt7 in vr and holy moly it’s insane
December 27, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Tbh I don’t think I’d wanna go up Shit’s Creek even if I did have a paddle
December 24, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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OKAMI SEQUEL ANNOUNCED with Kamiya
December 13, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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Everyone remembers the first time, am I right? 😆

#metalgearsolid
November 21, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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just bought a new tv 🎉
January 20, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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I've never truly appreciated just how insanely fantastic Soupy's vocal performance on All My Friends Are In Bar Bands is.
December 17, 2023 at 9:24 PM
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i watched two terrible christmas movies last night. hell yeah
December 12, 2023 at 2:48 PM
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for those who have heart is a great american classic
December 8, 2023 at 12:15 AM
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american baseball - never meant
November 24, 2023 at 5:25 PM
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beat alan wake 1 yesterday and thought it was a brilliant game
November 14, 2023 at 9:44 AM
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i’m looking for answers but all i’m gettin are echoes…
November 9, 2023 at 10:51 PM
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The implied social contract between you and a cat is they get to live in your house and be gross, and you get to bother them a little
October 13, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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loading up some tokimeki memorial :) playstation version!
October 7, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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hello world
October 7, 2023 at 12:31 AM