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> they get defensive, almost like you are threatening their identity by saying a computer can do it. It's a fairly common reaction from most people. Hayao Miya
by atarian 9y ago
> they get defensive, almost like you are threatening their identity by saying a computer can do it.
It's a fairly common reaction from most people. Hayao Miyazaki, director of Spirited Away, got very upset after being shown a demo of AI doing animation:
https://qz.com/859454/the-director-of-spirited-away-says-animation-made-by-artificial-intelligence-is-an-insult-to-life-itself/ https://qz.com/859454/the-director-of-spirited-away-says-ani...
- sp332 9y agoI feel like that misses a lot of the context of the video. It was animating mutilated bodies in a prototype for a horror game. It's no wonder it was upsetting.
- girvo 9y agoYeah and if you read the quotes in the article, he's definitely more focused on the content than how it was made
- averagewall 9y agoAt the end of the video he seems to show the other side - "I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves."
- thinkfurther 9y agoHe doesn't seem like he feels threatened in his identity, if anything that blank, off-guard stare of the others seems that way. He basically asks them wtf is wrong with them, and they just don't know. They "didn't mean anything by it".
- cbracken 9y agoI admit I didn't read the linked article, but I did watch the video and speak Japanese pretty fluently. His reaction of disgust isn't to the general idea of computer-generated animation, but to the specific animation he's being shown, which features a corpse thrashing around on the ground, and specifically in relation to having a severely disabled friend. It's entirely possible he's not a fan of computer-generated animation in general, but that clip doesn't indicate much one way or another.