Potentially unpopular opinion, but I don't think art or artstyles should be copyrighted.
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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They aren't, thankfully
Will you guys shut up about this?
There are genuinely some big issues with AI that need to be addressed but they are drowned out by morons melting down over people making dumb little Ghibli style images for their own amusement.
Shout about insurance companies using AI to auto dent people's medical claims, not about some dude Turnjng a picture of his cat into anime style
Its attacking on a cultural front and we will move on in a week. People still care more about insurance companies, trust me.
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Nah information should be free. Ghibli doesn't own its style. Fuck this copyright propaganda machine.
Figures. The wealthy could never fully buy power with just wealth, there was always someone smarter that was a threat. Now, they can just buy intelligence, thanks to AI, and crush everything else with their sheer weight.
Is this the great filter? The ultimate fate of all species?
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Sucks because ghibli has always been really protective of its ip and in the future it maybe made harder and harder to watch it.
I think it is also a kind of "you did a nice thing there, so I'll act as if I can do the same" display.
Cool, another preachy argument that jumps to irrational conclusions. Because Ghibli?
It is a display of power: You as an artist, an animator, an illustrator, a writer, any creative person are powerless. We will take what we want and do what we want. Because we can.
Uh…we always could & did. Imitators have been doing that since always, long before LLMs. No one owns an art style.
This is the idea of might makes right. The banner that every totalitarian and fascist government rallied under.
That's the argument? Plagiarism & imitating art styles is fascism? Wow! The rest of the article is worse.
Please make the word fascism more meaningless.
Exactly this is so frustrating that people fall in for copyright propaganda just because "big tech is bad".
Ghibli doesn't own a style. It has sbeen made by thousands of animators and millions of illustrations and influences before them.
This is not the way to get back at big tech.
Imitators have been doing that since always, long before LLMs
Fill me in a bit. Are you under the impression that artists are particularly okay with/enjoy people imitating their art style?
Are we pretending this is new & their opinion matters in some new way it hasn't before?
There might be an argument to demand licensing royalties on intellectual property. Is that too capitalist? Maybe it's fine if we work that into the word fascism somehow, wear it out a bit more to hit that sweet spot. Ooh.
No. We're acting as if their opinion always mattered just as much as it does now.
While your style is not, can not, and should not be your intellectual property, you should have the right to say "I don't want you to imitate my exact style" and people should respect that.
We’re acting as if their opinion always mattered just as much as it does now.
So not at all: got it.
you should have the right to say “I don’t want you to imitate my exact style”
You do.
people should respect that
"That's just like your opinion, man." meme goes here.
The argument seems to amount to "stop using/imitating my work to express yourself in ways I don't like", which is futile & senseless.
So, to recap, your position is this:
Artists do not deserve the respect that would allow them to be creative unfettered. Gotcha.
How does "respect" "allow" an artist "unfettered creativity"? How exactly is instructing others how to treat/imitate their work & expecting their wishes to be fulfilled promoting "unfettered creativity"? Seems like the opposite. Can you break that down into logic?
Are you suggesting artists are fragile beings whose creativity only exists at the mercy of our "respect" and the slightest disrespect breaks them? That seems rather self-important.
I submit that artists don't need our respect to be creative: the suggestion is belittling to artists.
The real point is the article fails to argue well.
I didn't say they needed respect to be creative. I said they needed respect to be creative unfettered.
they needed respect to be creative unfettered
Respectfully, I don't see what unfettered here is adding. I clarified by editing the earlier comment to request to explain the logic.
Do you know what the word unfettered means?
Edit to add: Why are you arguing for disrespecting people's wishes?
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As an artist, when people imitate me, I take it as flattery.
When a machine imitates me, I take it as an insult to life itself.
When a machine imitates me, I take it as an insult to life itself.
I might be flattered that someone bothered to make a machine do that. Massaging software to do that also takes skill?
When GitHub Copilot lifts my opensource code, I'm not offended. I only cringe a bit when it's bad code I regret committing.
I take it as flattery
I respect your position, and I appreciate people who are willing to share their creativity in an inspiring way like that.
However, others don't see it as flattery. Particularly in eastern cultures, it is seen as mockery or plagiarism. You can choose to disagree about why they don't want you to imitate their style, but you should always respect the request.
If eastern cultures don't like imitation, why are there a million identical isekai light novels with an average joe who dies, reincarnates in a slightly altered Dungeons and Dragons world, and gets a harem of women with huge breasts whose personalities are taken straight from TVtropes?
Because humans suck?
Fair.
This is an absolutely rational take.
Individual, noncommercial imitation is flattery.
LLM ripoff is exactly that.
An insult to life itself.
Title made by the least pretentious American liberal
What kind of article is this? They misattributed a quote, then admitted the misattributed the quote, then doubled down on it, and then threw in a political message.
People, this is rage bait. It's yellow journalism. Don't fall for this shit.
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