Fun fact: the fucking loser that made this got bullied so hard he deleted everything related to this off his social media accounts.
Also I agree with the fella that says we need to being back tarring and feathering, exclusively for techbros
Article source: https://www.thewrap.com/ai-princess-mononoke-remake-trailer-slammed-online/
“I strongly feel that [artificial intelligence] is an insult to life itself,” the original’s legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki has previously said
A “Princess Mononoke” film created using so-called generative AI was slammed by fans on social media after its release earlier this week.
“One day we’ll wake up, and there won’t be any more Princess Mononoke, Gravity Falls, Avatar or animated films like Wolf Children or Arcane… just AI-generated soulless garbage,” wrote @goroweko on X, formerly Twitter. “I don’t want that so bad.”
The AI-generated remake goes up against the original “shot-for-shot” and was created by AI entrepreneur PJ Acetturo, combining AI-generated CGI shots that match the fim. The result is a “crime” that turns “a 15-year-old Japanese girl into a white woman with a smoky eye and bikini tan lines” and “‘is enough for me to think we should bring back tarring and feathering,” literary agent Roma Panganiban wrote on X.
Acetturo has made it clear he’s proud of his production, no matter what reaction it’s received. “I’ve wanted to make a live action version of Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke for 20+ years now. I spent $745 in Kling credits to show you a glimpse of the future of filmmaking,” he wrote on X.
The AI filmmaker added that he was “being interviewed on the BBC today about my films” and “Clients are reaching out like crazy.”
He was challenged in the BBC segment, with one of the British network’s contributors noting that it seemed that there was something lacking in AI-created content.
“I’m sure there will be some criticism of this. I’ve heard Miyazaki is anti-AI. That’s okay,” the filmmaker wrote online. “I made this adaptation mostly for myself, because his work makes me want to create new worlds. We should look for ethical ways to explore AI tools to help empower artists to create.”
He posted a side-by-side comparison of his trailer with the beautifully crafted original:
The Mononoke trailer is a shot-for-shot remake of the trailer. This film has been in my head for two decades. I love this world so much.
I hope this meager adaptation inspires others to further explore their favorite worlds. Here’s the side by side comparison: pic.twitter.com/eDu8ASOBU6
— PJ Ace (@PJaccetturo) October 3, 2024 His statements were called out as problematic by actor Swann Grey, who tweeted in response, “‘I’ve heard Miyazaki is anti-AI. That’s okay.’ … Excuse you? To say that in the same breath as the word ‘ethical’? And to call a shot-for-shot remake ‘creating a new world’? Zero creativity, zero respect, and zero concept of what art is. You’re not an artist — you’re a fraud.”
Miyazaki himself has stated, when presented with an example of the use of AI in animation, that “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
Kind of wild that the substance of this article is how this guy is definitively not making “art” and yet the author still insists on calling him a filmmaker. He didn’t even make a full length film, it was a trailer.
E) I suppose it’s possible this “AI Entrepeneur”
has made other, full length, projects in the past. Perhaps the author could have included this information prior to labelling him a filmmaker. I don’t care enough to investigate further.
He paid money to prompt a treat printer.
I wonder if the core of this hype wave is exactly this: people without artistic inclination or the desire to learn how to make art wanting to press a button and be artists, because fuck artists, not a real job, amirite fellow meat computers?
I mean, not everyone can be artists (as someone who likes art myself… don’t do it often enough though). I get that. And also sometimes generating something is just the quickest and easiest way (for instance, when making a D&D chara or something and wanting visuals).
People making AI-generated “art” and getting high off their own farts while adding nothing of substance, monetizing “their” work while exploiting actual artists’ labor (art) is another thing entirely, of course. But other than that personally I do think it is a good thing that means of creation or generation- it can be debated if it’s “art” or not- are becoming accessible, both for those who aren’t artistically inclined, or for the simple convenience of the fact- the real issues are the capitalist system this all is occurring within, and the disregard for artists’ rights to their labor (though death of the author/artist and the whole “once it’s released into the wild…” is also a thing, personally I think the ethics outside of capital are murky and a recognition of who created what, when outside private use, is at least the most basic decency/dignity)
That’s what I’m getting at. People having easy (and hopefully not ruinously energy intensive) access to concept pictures and the like is one thing, but the “AI entrepreneur” that is the topic of this thread wanted some sort of special recognition for prompting a terrible remake of Princess Mononoke.
To play devil’s advocate, if they can solve the efficiency problems, I can see a place for image/video/text decoration as a “intentionally not from scratch/tool assisted” form of creativity.
If you take several model kits and assemble the parts into something new, it’s an accepted genre of project. Often, it produces a higher grade finished product than if someone with modest talents started with raw balsa, brass, and plastic stock, so it’s a fair choice for people who have skill or resource constraints. They got what they wanted, through effort of their own.
I wonder if we could get AI tools that offered a similar experience. It feels like the current tools tend to be very brute-force gacha-oriented-- if you don’t like this picture, make futile attempts to reword the prompt and generate 30 more-- rather than iterative tools to improve and personalize and perhaps reinject soul.
Perhaps part of that is by keeping it random it helps to keep it legally murky. It might look vaguely like a frame of $media_property, but it’s a made of a thousand shards of different training materials so tiny as to deny anyone a strong footing to sue.
That ship has already sailed pretty far away. There’s not much randomness or legal murkiness when the prompt asks for Ronald McDonald or the like on most big models.
A trailer is certainly not a film so that’s a silly false label for sure. If they had made a full length film and it were ‘AI-film maker’, as in a maker of an ‘AI-film’ as a descriptive term it would make more sense.
but “art” is not as restrictive of a term as you think it is; and I say this as a lifelong artist of most-my-life study and practice. Artists tend to have big egos and inflate their own sense of self importance and what they do. And to be real I do get a little schadenfreude of the petty bourgeois despair and philosophical crises and material reckoning by all these “automation may take those UNSKILLED LOWER jobs done by the UNWASHED BLUE COLLAR WAGE SLAVES but it will never happen to my god-endowed higher-calling spark of divinity skill!!” petty bourgeois artists who I have heard in my circles for a decade and a half; who never gave any kind of a shit and in many cases applauded at the technological innovations and lower prices while automation has been destroying working class relations to their labor for nearly two decades; causing all the same and no-less-real-and-impactful disgust and panic and collapse of self-sense and self-worth and philosophical dread and alienation and material wage-loss they need to live.
Maybe once the ego-shattering ends they can realize they have to throw in with the workers as workers to seize the means of automated and traditional production and stop over-inflating their self-importance to where the discourse is about the very unserious “what real art really is” (while countless kinds of ‘AI’/‘smart tools’ have been used in major digital mediums for a very very long time, no less) rather than the much more material and important issues of energy consumption and climate, ownership, laborers being automated out of jobs that has been happening and growing for 15-20 years, etc.
I’m an artist and art has been a fundamental part of my life for most of it, and these models can be fun in some ways but not really my thing; isn’t really a fulfilling process for me; but this stuff is to me not any different than any worker watching a machine do any job they dedicated their life to perfecting, but it does it in a fraction of the time and gets better and better at it but “without any of the ‘soul’” (which begs the question, what is the “soul,” in what I do, and was there one? hence the spiraling philosophical revulsion.") In fact, this exact phenomenon is a tale as old as John Henry.
I made a more cohesive comment on it here https://hexbear.net/comment/5477155
Capital recognizes capital, grift and ““art”” recognizes grift/““art””