blog post on why this behavior sucks: https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
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?
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.
Great read
Here’s another good read: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
I had my brother do this to me yesterday. My hate for those vampires grow more and more everyday.
Honestly I think whatever this Ghibli trend is about, it’s just good advertisting for the real Studio Ghibli.
Ghibli
God forbid someone do something harmless that brings them an iota of joy.
God forbid somebody thinks it’s cringe and makes a joke about it.
I mean, yeah? “You like a thing I don’t, reeeeeeee kys” is proper reddit/4chan mentality and just childish, let people enjoy things.
let people enjoy things.
Thanks, I’m enjoying this picture a lot.
Got em.
Fair
I don’t get it. :(
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.
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.
Ah yes, murder-suicide is a perfectly reasonable response to your friend doing something artistic that you disagree with.
Is exaggeration for humour something you’re unaware of?
Humor is a kind of art and he doesn’t understand art.
There’s no humour here.
Look closer at the third panel.
A man’s friend has generated a cute image that she finds amusing. In response, the man has decided to kill her and also himself.
Woo, hilarious.
What’s the artistic part in “upload photo to AI generator and write prompt ‘turn this into ghibli-style’”?
The humour in the comic isn’t mine, but I don’t consider using an AI slop machine as artistic.
What’s the artistic part in “taping a banana to the wall?”
Art is in the eye of the beholder, you don’t get to declare what is and is not art for everyone else.
So you think that typing the prompt “convert this photo ghibli style” constitutes art? You’re really scraping the bottom there.
The resulting image is not art and it’s definitely not the work of the friend in the comic.
So you think that typing the prompt “convert this photo ghibli style” constitutes art?
No, I think that anyone who declares that they know what art is or is not is wrong.
Art is different things to different people, there’s no objective determination.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with hyperbole
Putting a photo through an AI photo filter is not artistic. Literally a toddler drawing with a crayon is infinitely more artistic.
“Doing something artistic”, as if there’s anything artistic about shoving a likely lovingly taken picture into one of these slop machines.
Look up “hyperbole”
It’s beautiful really
Yea. Just realized he’s about to off both of them.
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.
Imagine caring more about protecting corporate copyright than bonding time with your very own life partner 🤡
Imagine thinking most people care about corporate copyright and that there is nothing else objectionable about it
If you’re forcing such ridiculous binary choices the problem is you.
It’s literally the comic lmao
Is he back to making comics for buzzfeed?
His redemption arc has been pretty good
It’s so much fun to block butthurt artists that are sad they aren’t special anymore
I wonder what model will replace you on the dead internet.
As if any engagement farmer would bother wasting energy on lemmy
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.
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.
