The Mexican director and writer Guillermo del Toro made clear his disapproval of the animation created from artificial intelligence (AI). “It’s an insult to life”he said, echoing the words of another purist of traditional animation, the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away).
During the promotion of his Netflix movie pinocchioDel Toro spoke with the North American media decideand maintained that products like his, which in particular use the artisan technique of stop motionare in direct opposition to machine-generated animation.
“I consume and love human-made art,” Del Toro emphasized.. “That moves me completely. And I’m not interested in illustrations made by machines. I’ve talked to Dave McKean, a great artist. He told me that his biggest hope is that the AI doesn’t know how to draw”.
Del Toro explained that what the AI does is extrapolate information, but never create or draw. “It can’t capture a feeling or an expression or the softness of a human face. If that conversation were to open up in the cinema, it would hurt deeply and, as Miyazaki says, it would be an insult to life.”
He refers to the statements that in a 2016 documentary by the Japanese channel nhk made Hayao Miyazaki (The One Who Never Ends), founder of the prestigious animation studio Ghibli.
When shown a sequence of an AI-animated creature with clumsy, zombie-like movements, he was horrified, responding: “Whoever believes these things has no idea what pain is.. I am extremely disgusted. If you really want to do nasty things, go do them. I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work. I feel like it’s an insult to life.”
If humans have to start creating machines that draw for them, he summed up, it would mean the end. “We are losing faith in ourselves.”
Studio Ghibli announced on December 13 that the next film by Miyazaki (who usually produces a short or feature film every time he thinks about his retirement) will be released in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2023, and is titled How Do You Live. It’s his first project since the wind rises (2013), available, as Pinocchio, on Netflix. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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