Studio Ghibli chairman and producer Toshio Suzuki shared his thoughts on generative artificial intelligence and the viral wave of “Ghibli-style” illustrations in a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun. Suzuki said he deliberately ignored numerous media requests when the trend was at its peak, believing it was a temporary hobby that would quickly lose interest.
The producer said that AI creations are easily identifiable and lack real creative content. He contrasted the work of neural networks, which collect data from the web to find the “best solution,” to Miyazaki’s approach. The director is still busy making movies “The Boy and the Bird” Completely isolating themselves from external sources of information and not even knowing that generative artificial intelligence exists. Suzuki firmly believed that Hayao Miyazaki’s unique artistic vision could not be replicated with technology, and that the studio itself should become a true symbol of human art in the future.