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The misuse of the "insult to life itself" quote from Miyazaki on AI burns my yams so bad bc the original context is being disgusted with how a characters movements are dehumanizing to disabled people specifically bc of his empathy for a disabled friend and it's such a sadly rare sentiment, this cognizance of how we casually inflict indignity upon disabled people and how he finds it disgusting, I hate seeing it obfuscated

In the video he sees character animation where the presenter comments on how the AI can be used to model "grotesque movements humans can't even imagine." And Miyazaki immediately mentions that he thought of his physically disabled friend, who struggles with movement, with the implication being that what's "insulting to life itself" is the degradation of people like him to grotesque monsters. Regardless of my feelings about AI art I don't think it's worth obscuring this humane thought process to have a rhetorical weapon

I watched the full video long ago and I can't be sure what Miyazaki meant when he mentioned that. I think part of the point which Miyazaki made was that he thought of his friend for whom every movement was painful and what he was shown did nothing to portray his physical pain, instead it looked creepy and inhuman (after all computers can't deliberately express something like that).

Whether it was specifically because he felt it was insulting to his disabled friend or for both things I don't think it's wrong to say AI (especially the way it's being used rn) is an insult to life itself.

One of the first forms of art ever existed are cave paintings, then people also learned to communicate and express themselves through spoken and written language, music etc. This is an act that is born out of our humanity and us being living creatures and I do think that thinking an algorithm can """communicate""" our life and experiences in our place is indeed an insult to life itself.

This is not meant as an opposite statement to OP, just saying that it's my opinion that thinking AI is an insult to life itself in most contexts is not even an exaggeration.

It's literally a machine, an algorithm, attempting to portray life and humanity.... It's creepy AF that we think of that as technological advancement rather than cultural regression.

this isn't the olympics, naruto