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 original ideas, no inspiration and no taste have gotten access to these creation tools, which have flooded the internet with this plastic-looking junk. I don't understand why people love reposting it.
The AI video you linked at least had some idea behind it, so it might not be 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 the jokes for them too.
This 1929 Disney cartoon is a product of its time. It's still miles better than the AI-generated one you posted. I think my favorite Disney era is hand-drawn animation movies of the 90s to the 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 won't even get into how unethical it is to train AI on others' work — especially the work of Studio Ghibli, considering how Hayao Miyazaki feels about this stuff. They stole his work and desecrated it. There's a famous quote from him: I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
It's clear that this is a new era for art. This technology isn't going to go away — it will only get more sophisticated if anything. In a few years they'll probably get rid of that plastic look, and we won't be able to distinguish what's hand-drawn from what's computer-generated. It's already hard to tell if the video you're watching is real when, for example, it simulates low-quality security cam footage. And it's not like people who can draw or create 3D animation crank out nothing but masterpieces — there's a lot of carefully handcrafted crap too. So maybe fully AI-generated movies like the one you linked will become the new norm, but I, for one, am not looking forward to it. I emphatize with Hayao Miyazaki when he said: I feel like we are nearing the end of times.
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I wrote this as a comment on this post: https://journaly.com/post/48756. It turned out to be a lenghty one, so I'd be happy to get some corrections. If you have any thoughts on the topic, I suggest you leave them on the original post.
I copy and paste my comment here as well.
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?
Ah, as an artist myself, I feel very disturbed by AI generated art. I'll admit I was impressed at first, but I think in everyone trying to strive for perfection, we've lost sight of what art is: self-expression. A true artist knows their work will never be perfect, but that's not the point; it's about being able to take what you feel or see and make 'art' out of it. It might be ugly, and yet, that's what makes it beautiful.
The only thing that AI can do is copy and imitate. And it does it pretty well, but it's still nothing more than imitation. There is something wonderful about an ordinary human being taking a paintbrush, or camera, words, music, fabric, etc., etc., and making something unexpected.
I also hate that AI steals... a lot. I've had my work stolen before and it feels awful... The thought of a robot stealing and imitating my work is just... I don't have words for how horrible that is.
Using AI as a tool--an ACTUAL tool--is fine. But using AI to be a poser or falsify work is the worst, and more and more people are doing it every day... It really worries me that eventually we'll lose many critical thinkers and authentic masterpieces because it's "easier" to just let the robot do it.