All of Hayoa's work will get a NumPy Array treatment and be thrown through the bars to feed the Ai beasts. Crossing the line currently seems to be exactly there: training models on active artists' work or work that isn't yet in the public domain. There's no stopping it. This early in the growth cycle of Ai those crossing lines have big advantages. Anyway, I feel art has already been through a few of these over the last 3 centuries.

Generative A.I is not for everyone, it might seen too derivative so he is opting to keep his creative originality pure

Ultimately the market gets to decide, not the artist or the author.

There's an interesting dynamic at play here though, because humans are sentimental and ascribe value beyond pure functionality. The story and effort behind a thing is also important. I think you could also argue that human labor is scarcer than generative AI labor, and thus acquires some sort of value there too.

Miyazaki is such a boss. I didn't think my respect for him could get any higher, but it just did.

I remember this video.

One could argue faith in ourselves brought us here where we are immersed in our own creations. It seems we're grappling with what exactly is the sacred part of creation. Where should we draw a line between tools like the pen, paintbrush and digital algorithm?

For me and at this point it's all in the product. So far people have been using these tools clumsily so it's easy to see the glitches and the overly detailed yet meaningless renderings of nonsense. My reaction is to look backward and to hold onto the past, for now.

This form of romance seems more common among the Japanese. I hope it endures if only to serve as some kind of memorial to what we were once capable of. It reminds me of aging Yakuza refusing to adopt guns.

I honor the Man for his true passion of Art... although I'm using AI fairly often in my art posts... There pretty interesting results when you use analog painting as base image for generative art ;) That's my humble opinion.