When Hayao Miyazaki was capable of generating crude animation in 2016, his response was blunt: 鈥淚 am utterly disgusted.鈥�
The Studio Ghibli co-founder 鈥� whose films include the 1997 epic 鈥淧rincess Mononoke鈥� and the 2001 Oscar-winning 鈥淪pirited Away鈥� 鈥� also called the demonstration 鈥渁n insult to life itself.鈥� The remark, delivered with visible contempt, quickly became a rallying cry for skeptics of machine-made art.
At the time, the technology seemed crude, even nonthreatening. Few predicted how quickly it would mature. Eight years later, OpenAI released a major update to ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot, allowing users to generate images from text prompts in seconds.
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