Art students and teachers are dismayed by the new trend of using AI to generate images with the Studio Ghibli art style that is going viral on social media.
Ms. Calandra Couch, Art teacher in B pod, said she would not be happy if she was Miyazaki in this situation.
“I would be furious and mad if that were me,” she said.
Recently, OpenAI released its new feature where users are able to generate images using the Studio Ghibli art style, simply by uploading a photo while the AI turns the photo into the Studio Ghibli art style.
Studio Ghibli is an anime art style that is hand drawn, colored with soft and vibrant colors. Studio Ghibli was founded on June 15, 1985, and is run by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and the producer Toshio Suzuki.
When Hayao Miyazaki was shown a sample of an AI generated photo, he said that he would never want to include AI in his work.
“I never wish to incorporate technology into my work at all!” he said to his studio members.
Chloe Liang, 13, on the Champions team says she wouldn’t like it if she was in this situation.
“I would be mad because my art is being copied, and I worked hard to perfect all of my pieces,” she said.
All of Miyazaki’s works and movies are illustrated by hand, and take a long time to complete. Just a four second clip from the movie “The Wind Rises” features a crowd scene that took one year and three months to create without using any type of AI.
When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in 2021, they paid a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki’s artwork with a special exhibit.
Katelyn Kim, 13, on the Majestics team says that AI generated pictures will always look different from the original.
“AI makes pictures look too cartoony and not like normal art,” she said.
Chloe says that hand drawn art is unique and that it can’t be copied.
“Hand drawn art cannot be recreated with an exact replica because the materials, coloring, and brush strokes will always look different,” she said.
AI can be used for many different things in school and at home, but it also has parts where students can use it for cheating purposes in school.
Ms. Couch says that AI is not a good influence on kids today.
“There have been too many times where students would turn to ChatGPT to get answers for their assignments,” she said. “If it continues in the future, then kids might start to become dependent on it.”
Katie Huang, 12, on the Dream team says that she would change some parts of ChatGPT and AI.
“I would make some rules about copyrighting,” she said.
Katelyn says that she would change ChatGPT by limiting some features.
“I would make it so that you can’t copy others’ art and generate pictures,” she said.
