I painted this portrait of Miyazaki being repulsed by 'AI art' live on stream in my Neofeud style. #Artist #miyazaki #ghiblistyle #indiedev #indiegamedev

The fact that one of my favourite film studio's style has now become a "preset" for the most popular generative image service fills me with a profound sadness that I have a hard time putting into words.

It may seem inoffensive to turn your profile pic into a "Ghibli style illustration"... and it probably is, Ghibli will be fine. However, the charm of those movies are their humanity. The fact that you can appreciate the craft and care in every frame of their movies. In other words, they're an antithesis for everything modern generative ML models stand for.

All in all, a minor thing given all that's happening in the world... but sad nonetheless.