‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student (youtube.com)
Masked arrests of people who aren't gangs? In this case, students at school?
Someone made an AI that you feed it stills and it spits out Ghibli-style versions, and people're processing all their favorite tv shows, meme photos, etc, through it. I'm curious what Miyazaki will say about it, but probably it's a sign that it won't really be worth doing anything publicly that has a style, since courts haven't deemed fit to protect that, and even if they do globally there will be holes. It seems artists will just stop making things for the public, at least if it takes any investment. Time for them to become all-renouncing monks. Even if Miyazaki does it for himself, or for some love of something, I can't see how a lot of the fun is taken out of it. Also, who wants to see their art style used to portray disgusting things, as it is being used to do on day 1. Maybe the thing about people like Altman, they just don't care about other people. I mean, you see a bunch of sexual images using the OpenAI Ghibli thing, and you imagine Miyazaki and his team seeing this, and maybe all Japan, and everyone who cares about Miyazaki films, and how could the guy care?