1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)

Posted by vinhnx 12/13/2025

1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)(www.ghibli.jp)

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vunderba 12/13/2025|

Always happy to see stills from my favorite Ghibli film, "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind".

workfromspace 12/14/2025||

A movie theater in my city (northern europe) shown both Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle. It was just pure joy to watch them in big screen.

I wish they were remastered in 4K, though.

qmmmur 12/13/2025||

I'm so glad that this is available so some cretin with TPUs can train the next culturally and morally compromised generative model.

ojr 12/13/2025||

I would have never heard of Studio Ghibli along with several others if it wasn't in the training data. The result? More awareness and relevance, more visit to their museums, more viewing streams, and more snarky discussion comments surrounding morality.

krapp 12/13/2025|||

Every frame of everything Miyazaki has ever done and every other movie, tv show, anime, screenplay, book and work of art by every artist everywhere have already been assimilated. Ghibli slop memes are already old hat.

I'm not claiming it's a good thing by any means but there's no point in worrying about it, the paperclip maximizer has done its work.

Fuzzwah 12/13/2025||

Or maybe the next great story teller to create something meaningful that touches people in ways that change their mental model of the world.

Perhaps allowing them to find the positives in new technologies.

Or, you know... Slop.

An open mind doesn't hurt though.

exasperaited 12/13/2025||

> Or maybe the next great story teller to create something meaningful that touches people in ways that change their mental model of the world.

How many pieces of AI art can you actually remember? I mean, call to mind in the same detail as you can remember a photograph?

I think AI generated imagery is fundamentally compromised somehow in this regard: something subliminally uncanny, no matter how realistic, makes them harder to recall.

For this reason I personally doubt AI generated art will ever have a profound effect on people. Because it really seems to lack the mechanism.

spencerflem 12/13/2025||

Because it is the devaluation of art.

If the medium is the message, then the message of any AI production is that the correct amount of time to care about this thing is zero seconds.

exasperaited 12/13/2025||

Well it is that but I think it is also that it is, at some informational level, fundamentally incoherent and unreal. It looks fine, but it is not anything. It has no intent in the art strokes (which I think always shows in geometry), it has no reality in the lighting of a photo.

It may be, I concede, that I see more AI-generated photos than other art types (AI generated photo fraud is a serious issue in a corner of the web I frequent) but I tend to find that I literally can't remember what they look like long after I see them.

Same exercise, focussing on faces specifically:

- try to visualise Taylor Swift's face. Or that of Rachel Weisz or Ming-Na Wen, or Sarah Silverman, or Alfre Woodard.

- now try to visualise the face of Tilly Norwood.

Obviously if you don't know who any of these people are, you can't do this exercise (which is why I included Taylor Swift). And if you don't know what Tilly Norwood is, you can't do this exercise.

But if you've seen a lot of content about Tilly Norwood, can you visualise the face in the same way? Is it memorable? It is not.

It is my contention that these images actually have something very undefinable missing, that my brain needs to find them worth memorising. I have seen many "AI models" now and I can't remember any of "their" faces.