Although Halloween has already passed, I'd like to share some video clips with you today.
This morning, while chatting with my friend from Texas, he shared some interesting short animations with me: one was made by AI, and the other was an old Disney film. We aren't really anime fans, but we watched both and then talked about them. We both preferred —and were more impressed by— the old Disney movie, which was made in 1929. I'm a big fan of antiques, so I naturally liked the Disney film but I was a bit surprised he preferred it as well.
When I asked him the reason, he said that he liked the human made movement in the video. The move by AI seemed too smooth, and it wasn't interesting.
I thought it was fascinating to think why we prefer the older one. I know that Hayao Miyazaki , a director of Studio Ghibli still create films in a old traditional way and is against using AI. That's why his animations feel nostalgic and attract to many people. I also think we feel a special warmth from things made by human hands. When we compare human-made paintings to AI-generated ones, why do we usually prefer human-made ones? Is it because we know that efforts is required to create them? Why do people appreciate handmade items more than machine made ones? What do you think?
Here are the AI-made Halloween video and the old Disney movie. If you're curious, click here and here. You can also watch a one-hour long spooky short film here.
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AI-generated videos infuriate me. People praise AI because it allows people without any skills to create something, but it sucks for the very same reason: people with no ideas, no inspirations and no taste got access to these creation tools, which flooded the internet with this plastic-looking junk. I don't know why people tend to repost it.
The AI video you linked at least had some idea behind it, so it might be not as bad as most of the stuff I see. I still don't like it though, neither how it looks nor the script. They probably used AI to write jokes for them too.
This 1929 Disney cartoon is a product of its time. It's still miles better than the AI-generated one. I think my favorite Disney era is hand-drawn animation movies of 90s-early 2000s, before they went full 3D — Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear, Mulan, Hercules... Maybe that's just because I grew up with them. I don't mind 3D movies either — Monsters, Inc. is one of my favorites.
I don't even want to talk about how unethical it is to train AI on others' work. Especially Studio Ghibli ones, considering how Hayao Miyazaki feels about this stuff. They stole his work and desecrated it. There's a famous quote of his: I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc
It's clear that this is a new era for art. This technology won't go away, it will only improve. In a few years they'll probably get rid of this plastic look. We won't be able to distinguish hand-drawn work from computer-generated one. It's already hard to guess if the video you see is real, when for example it pretends to be a low-quality security cam recording. And it's not like people who can draw or make 3D animations only create masterpieces — there's a lot of carefully handcrafted junk too. So maybe fully AI-generated movies like the one you linked will become a new norm. But I'm not looking forward to it. I emphatize with Hayao Miyazaki, who said: I feel like we are nearing to the end of times.
Thank you so much for the comment. I'm so impressed by your comment because I know it's the hardest to describe how we feel, what we think, and more in other languages. You're definitely awesome!
I used to watch your favorite anime and movies when my daughter was a kid. When I was a kid, I loved "Snow white" and "sleeping Beautty". I think I'm your mom's generation, lol.
I think we'll still appreciate hand-made items even though AI generated take them over. We'll seek those, so I don't need to worry about the future. I guess we're wired to prefer imperfect things and strive to perfect them.
Does it make sense to you?
Your words about striving to imperfections remind me of Wabi-Sabi. And I think that imperfections can make those works unique. Even now we have mass-produced goods and hand-crafted ones, and we value latter more. We'll just have the same division in media. Maybe we already do.
Yes, exactly! It relates to Wabi-Sabi!!