Today’s video web log explores a curious machine that dreams in pictures – after all, ChatGPT 4o can now spin out images with an efficiency and soullessness only rivaled by the rest of industrial mass-production.
In light of AI Ghibli-fying everything, Miyazaki clings stubbornly to pencils and paint, believing that perfection without fingerprints isn’t perfection at all, but artistic taxidermy. On one side, there’s the handcrafted charm; on the other, AI effortlessly feigns nostalgia without ever tasting it.
And what of human imperfection in art? Perhaps, instead, we will settle comfortably into the cool embrace of the machine.
Chapters
00:00 - Ghibli, Irony, Tragedy
02:06 - Every frame a painting
03:54 - Economy, Efficiency, and Art
05:48 - 4o Image’s Autoregressive Breakthrough
07:13 - Efficiency’s effect on scarcity of art
09:00 - AI Won’t Replace Photoshop
10:32 - Art is tedium
11:42 - AI is a blunt tool
16:09 - Technology individualizes.
17:08 - Art’s greatness, auteurs, and spirit
20:19 - It comes down to taste.
24:29 - Discipline & Focus