sorry but if i have to see one more ghibli style ai photo filter on any form of social media i will really have to start considering a life without the internet in the deep woods somewhere. like it’s so discouraging all the fucking time when people mindlessly participate in this stupid sort of trend without considering the overarching implications, and in this case it’s particularly egregious and doesn’t even take much thinking to see why it’s bad, when hayao miyazaki has explicitly said that he believes gen ai is an insult to life itself. a hand-drawn animated film is such a labor of love and the work of years, and using that to train ai to create soulless versions of people’s vacation photos in the name of “content”……. oh it’s bad out here.