Roger Clark is well aware of what humanity and tragedy are; that is what Arthur Morgan, the character from Red Dead Redemption 2 he gave his voice, is about. The voiceover artist sensed something similar that’s depressing not just to him but to the entire community of artists who pour their hearts in for months, even years, to craft something: the AI trend that turns anything into Studio Ghibli’s in-house animated style images.
Recently, he took his thoughts to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on all this AI-madness that’s taking over the internet.
You’re hurting the original art, you’re hurting your audience and you’re hurting yourself.
— Roger Clark (@rclark98) March 28, 2025
Studio Ghibli was co-founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata, and Yasuyoshi Tokuma. Since then, it has been delivering its films using its traditional hand-drawn animations. That makes it almost four decades of legacy, which OpenAI and its users made disrespectful use of within hours.
Fans Gathered in Support of the Roger Clark’s Post
It didn’t take long for his fans to join in the conversation, and their responses tell us their thoughts about this harrowing initiative begun by Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
I realize this. I realize the thought and effort that goes into real art. The things people design. It matters to me because the fact someone took the time to create a piece is more significant to me than the actual thing sometimes. It’s a damn shame. We shouldn’t use AI to mimic…
— Tango (@TangoVG) March 29, 2025
Another fan knows that fans don’t walk such a disrespectful path. If they do, they aren’t really fans.
"oh but I wanted to make myself in that style but I can't afford an artist" then don't do it 👍
— 🄿🅃🅁🄲🄺 (@ptrckhnrq) March 28, 2025
If you call yourself fan, you shouldn't be doing this, it's disrespectful to the creator.
Same as music, if you don't have the talent and can't afford a musician, just don't do it.
And perhaps the best thought came from the mind of this user called Big Boss Batman. He believes AI can only mimic things, nothing else.
AI will never be able to recreate a human's mind, and people will NEVER get it.
— Big Boss Batman (@BigB0ssBatman) March 28, 2025
You cannot put the essence of a human thought into a computer, you can't create art without a human's help with AI.
You can't create the human artistic love with AI.
Ai doesn't create, it mimics.
Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on this ongoing trend but they did clear the air when a false rumor aired. Someone circulated a fake cease and desist letter that appeared to be issued by Studio Ghibli. The studio outright denied having any affiliation with it. From what we know about this viral trend, it’s expanding at a Flash-like pace. Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) even claimed that the vast usage of the image generator for generating Studio Ghibli-styled images is melting their GPUs.
Hayao Miyazaki Never Supported for Art’s Integration With Technology
Hayao Miyazaki isn’t among the most accomplished filmmakers of the world today; he abides by the tradition. Add to his criticism of artificial intelligence. He was shown a piece of AI-generated ‘art’ back in 2016 and he felt “utterly disgusted” by it. That, and he doesn’t intend to use the technology at Studio Ghibli.
We don’t know for how long this AI madness will go on, but one thing’s for sure: the netizens are divided among two factions now this trend is active, with one generating such images and others despising it. Sam Altman has already announced that the image generation will be lowered to three per day for every user. That ought to put a brake on the vast supply of these AI-generated images on the internet.
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Anurag Batham is a Writer at Thumb Wars zeroed in on video games but will also throw himself up on anything in association with anime and cinema. As with his favorite video games, give him anything with a linear story, be it Call of Duty or Braid, and he will be happy. He think of stories as food and wants to feed his readers something nutritious, food for thought.
