I’m interested to see what this model can do, but also kinda annoyed at the use of a Studio Ghibli style image as one of the first examples. Miyazaki has said over and over that he hates AI image generation. Is it really so much to ask that people not deliberately train LoRAs and finetunes specifically on his work and use them in official documentation?
It reminds me of how CivitAI is full of “sexy Emma Watson” LoRAs, presumably because she very notably has said she doesn’t want to be portrayed in ways that objectify her body. There’s a really rotten vein of “anti-consent” pulsing through this community, where people deliberately seek out people who have asked to be left out of this and go “Oh yeah? Well there’s nothing you can do to stop us, here’s several terabytes of exactly what you didn’t want to happen”.
> Miyazaki has said over and over that he hates AI image generation
No he has not. He was talking about an AI model that was shown off for crudely animating 3D people in 2016, in a way that he found creepy. If you watch the actual video, you can see the examples that likely set him off here[0].
It's all too much of cringe. AI creativity space is chock full of cringy cargocult parody of "no such things as bad publicity" strategy. Things on the Internet is reposted to death so what's wrong if we use them what even is copyright. Everybody hates AI generated images sure that's how you get the word out. Pornography drives adoption so let them have some it should work.
Those behaviors might appear correct in an extremely superficial sense, but it is as if they prompted themselves for "man eating cookies" and ended up with what is akin to early Will Smith pasta gifs. Whatever they're doing and assuming it's cookies held in hands, they're not eating them.
I mean, did you really expect anything more from the internet? Maybe I'm wrong, but hentai, erotic roleplay, and nudify applications seem to still represent a massive portion of AI use cases. At least in the case of ero RP, perhaps the exploitation of people for pornography might be lessened....
I get that if you can imagine something, it exists, and also there is porn of it.
What disappoints me is how aligned the whole community is with its worst exponents. That someone went “Heh heh, I’m gonna spend hours of my day and hundreds/thousands of dollars in compute just to make Miyazaki sad.” and then influencers in the AI art space saw this happen and went “Hell yeah let’s go” and promoted the shit out of it making it one of the few finetunes to actually get used by normies in the mainstream, and then leaders in this field like the Qwen team went “Yeah sure let’s ride the wave” and made a Studio Ghibli style image their first example.
I get that there was no way to physically stop a Studio Ghibli LoRA from existing. I still think the community’s gleeful reaction to it has been gross.
People are downvoting you but it's true. Ghibli is just the highest profile studio that creates work in that general style. Arguably most of the highest quality examples of that style are their work. However they're far from the only practitioners.
It reminds me of how CivitAI is full of “sexy Emma Watson” LoRAs, presumably because she very notably has said she doesn’t want to be portrayed in ways that objectify her body. There’s a really rotten vein of “anti-consent” pulsing through this community, where people deliberately seek out people who have asked to be left out of this and go “Oh yeah? Well there’s nothing you can do to stop us, here’s several terabytes of exactly what you didn’t want to happen”.