And in the end artificial intelligence had to surrender. For at least 10 days on social media the Ghibli Mania broke out, the desire to transform any photo through a comic designed according to the style of the famous Japanese animation laboratory by Hayao Miyazaki who created masterpieces such as “The enchanted city”, my neighbor “Totoro”, “Princess Mononoke”, “Red Porco”, “The boy and the Airone”. Unforgettable films, political denunciation, on the environment and the family, honor and responsibility, war and its mourning, family and love.
This is why the “ghiblification” has infected many of the 400 million active users every week, that they all indulged to generate so many photos that they send Ko chatgpt, also reopening the uncovered nerve of copyright. “Please slow down the generation of images, our team needs to rest,” Sam Altman asked users, talking about “biblical request”.
“We are having problems and we are investigating,” Openai communicated on his page status on technical communications to warn users. “Something went wrong,” is the inscription that appeared to some users who tried to ask questions to chatgpt. In the meantime, the “ghiblific” memes have multiplied on the net, from the Kennedy murder to the recent meeting of Trump and Zelensky, on September 11, even the arrest of a clandestine. In Italy, images of goals and historical games, the kolossal re -editions such as “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Godfather” but also cornerstones of the eighties cinema as “Fantozzi” and “The coach in the ball” have made item.
Miyazaki threw all his anger, invoking copyright and speaking of an attack on art. The Ghibli study is contrary to technologies that reduce human intervention, just think that in the era of computer graphics, many frames continue to be handed by hand. Chatgpt took a few minutes to make the 4 -second video image taken from “The Wind Ress” of 2013 which in reality, to be drawn, cost the animator Eiji Yamamori one year and three months of work. The wind rises, the Italian title of the film, it is a masterpiece that reveals many things about Miyazaki’s work, a planes fan from a child. One of the protagonists has the appearance of Gianni Caproni, a pioneering aeronautical manufacturer. Ghibli, who in Arabic means Sahara wind, was in fact the nickname of “his” Italian reconnaissance plane Caproni Ca.309, produced in Italy for the war in Libya. In Arabic Ghibli indicates the hot wind of the Sahara: hence the evocative name chosen for the aircraft. Miyazaki’s condemnation is clear: «I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself ». “There is no future for people who love the future and forget the past,” says the protagonist of the film the masterpiece “The Poppy Hill”.
If artificial intelligence has come to dirty the work of one of the greatest geniuses of world cinema, perhaps it is appropriate to reflect on the consequences of this slow and gradual destruction of man’s art and creativity.