The Honest Courtesan

I am utterly disgusted…I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself…We humans are losing faith in ourselves.  –  Hayao Miyazaki

Apparently, the purveyors of one of the machine-learning programs the tech moguls have been trying to cram into every single product, whether anyone wants it or not, recently taught their CGI system to ape the style of Hayao Miyazaki, founder of the famed Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli.  It’s bad enough that these moral imbeciles think plagiarism is acceptable and ethical if a machine does it, but that they had the colossal gall to do it to a humanistic artist who has clearly expressed his revulsion and opposition to mechanized animation is practically criminal.  These philistines don’t understand art, period, which is why they can be found expressing painfully-moronic sentiments like that in the screenshot presented here.  There have always been clods like this; in the past, they mostly flocked to landscapes and declared anything not strictly representational (including such esteemed artists as Van Gogh) “bad”.  Some of this anti-humanistic ilk even declared that photography would be the end of pictorial art, and their modern counterparts who declare CGI “art”, or even declare it superior to real human-created art, are soulless clowns whose opinions should be rejected by anyone who cares about beauty, life, and humanity.